Outcrop KACh-5, Kachar quarry (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kustanay, Kazakhstan (53.4° N, 62.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 54.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eginsai Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L.A. Nessov in 1992

Primary reference: A. O. Averianov. 2001. Systematics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene chimaeroid fish of the genus Elasmodus (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali). Paleontological Journal 35:289-300 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214305: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Elasmodus ? khosatzkyi Averianov 1999 plownose chimaera