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New and revised inaniguttid Radiolaria and associated trilobites from the upper Darriwilian (Ordovician) Shundy Formation of Kazakhstan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Lauren Pouille ,
Taniel Danelian ,
Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour  and
Leonid E. Popov
Lauren Pouille
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University Lille 1, UMR 8217 CNRS “Géosystèmes,” Bât. SN5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, ;
Taniel Danelian
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University Lille 1, UMR 8217 CNRS “Géosystèmes,” Bât. SN5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, ;
Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran,
Leonid E. Popov
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom,
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Abstract

Representatives of the family Inaniguttidae dominate a diverse and well-preserved radiolarian assemblage from Kazakhstan. The fauna was extracted from a limestone sample of the Shundy Formation, a limestone sequence that accumulated on the slope of a carbonate platform and which crops out in the Aksuran Mountains (North Balkhash Region). The family Inaniguttidae is represented in the studied assemblage by five genera and 14 species (including two new species, Triplococcus aksuranensis and Inanibigutta maletzi). The genus Triplococcus is particularly abundant, representing half of the Inaniguttids in the studied assemblage. Based on the presence of species Haplentactinia juncta, the fauna can be correlated with the upper Darriwilian Haplentactinia juncta–Inanigutta unica assemblage. Identified trilobites (Endymionia semielliptica and Porterfieldia sp. aff. P. delicata) found in the same sample also suggest a late Darriwilian age, which agrees with the age suggested previously by graptolites.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 87 , Issue 6 , November 2013 , pp. 1143 - 1159
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