Palynological characteristics of Kazakhstan Province of Carboniferous Euramerican Region

The paper presents results of palynological studies of the coal-bearing Carboniferous in Central Ka-zakhstan.A quantitative dynamics of major genera of miospores reflects an overall succession of the Carbonifer-ous miospore assemblages.Viséan Serpukhovian assemblages are dominanted by Lophozonotriletes fuscatus,Ac-anthozonotriletes cristifer,A.inclusus,Punctatisporites glabratus,Crassispora ignorata,C.scrupea,Cyclobacu-lisporites trichacanthus,Lycospora breviapiculata,L.echinata and Vallatisporites decrescens.Rare Punctatis-porites bertschoguriensis,Stenozonotriletes marginellus,Vallatisporites appilicatus,Verrucosisporites scrobiculatus,Reticulatisporites cancellatus,Granulatisporites arcuatus are recorded,which are not found in assemblages from overlying sediments.Bashkirian--Moscovian assemblages are dominated by Lycospora subtriquetra,L.pusilla,Vallatisporites ciliaris,Apiculatisporis mollis,Cyclogranisporites testiculatus,Calamospora microrugosa,Schopfi-pollenites principalis,Psilohymena psiloptera,Florinites grandis and Granulatisporites piroformis miospores.Cris-tatisporites latispinus,Angulisporites didymus,Thymospora obscura and Torispora securis are also present,as well as single Apiculatisporis curvispinus,Raistrickia inordinata,Marsupipollenites retroflexus,Entylissa capera-ta,Potonieisporites grandis and Cordaitina sp.A similar succession of miospore assemblages is recorded in the Carboniferous deposits of Europe and North America,which allows carrying out correlations,despite an endemic characters of many species of Paleozoic miospores from the coal-bearing Carboniferous of the Kazakh-stan Province in the Euramerian Paleofloristic Region.