Olen'i Roga tract, Tanama River (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (70.5° N, 80.4° E: paleocoordinates 65.2° N, 59.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.Z. Makhlin; V.N. Efremov in 1960;1964

• Repository: VSEGEI

Primary reference: O. I. Shmidt. 1976. O pervykh nakhodkakh morskikh ezhey v verkhnemelovykh otlozheniyakh Sovetskoy Arktiki. Trudy Vsesoyuzhnogo Neftyanogo Nauchno-Issledovatelskogo Geologorazvedochnogo Instituta 388:151-156 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196495: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster tanamensis n. sp. Shmidt 1976 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster arcticus n. sp. Shmidt 1976 heart urchin