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Conodonts from the upper Ordovician siliceous rocks of Central Kazakhstan

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Several conodont localities of the upper Sandbian Stage are known in siliceous deposits of Central Kazakhstan. All of them produced similar assemblages overwhelmingly dominated by Periodon grandis with insignificant admixture of Scabbardella altipes, Hamarodus europaeus, Pygodus anserinus, Protopanderodus sp., and Drepanodus sp. The main feature of this fauna is in the co-occurrence of H. europaeus and P. grandis, forms characteristic for deep-water facies at shelf or microcontinents margins of temperate and warm-water paleobiogeographic provinces. The Ordovician paleo-oceanic basin of Kazakhstan and southern Urals were parts of the uniform biogeographic area as indicated by similarity of Ordovician conodont assemblages in siliceous deposits of these regions.

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Tolmacheva, T.Y., Degtyarev, K.E., Ryazantsev, A.V. et al. Conodonts from the upper Ordovician siliceous rocks of Central Kazakhstan. Paleontol. J. 43, 1498–1512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030109110136

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