Hokodz River Basin, Caucasus (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (44.6° N, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 43.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Clansenian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• with sideritic concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: L. A. Doguzhaeva. 1994. An Early Cretaceous orthocerid cephalopod from north-western Caucasus. Palaeontology 37(4):889-899 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65755: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Acanthohoplites sp., Hypacanthoplites sp.
Acanthohoplites sp. Sinzow 1908 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
Ptychoceras sp.
Ptychoceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Tetragonites sp.
Tetragonites sp. Kossmat 1895 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Melchiorites sp.
Melchiorites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Diadochoceras sp.
Diadochoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Euphylloceras sp., Phyllopachyceras sp.
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
 Pseudorthocerida - Trematoceratidae
Zhuravlevia insperata n. gen. n. sp.
Zhuravlevia insperata n. gen. n. sp. Doguzhaeva 1994
 Belemnitida -
Mesohibolites sp.
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites sp.
Neohibolites sp. Stolley 1911 belemnite
 Spirulida - Groenlandibelidae
Naefia sp.
Naefia sp. Wetzel 1930