Priozernyi quarry, Kushmurun (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kustanay, Kazakhstan (52.4° N, 64.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 56.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eginsai Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Base of the gray siltstone and sand beds containing phosphorites of the Eginsai Formation (Upper Campanian-?Lower Maastrichtian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; phosphatic, gray siltstone

• Gray siltstone and sands with phosphorites

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. A. Nessov in 1992

Primary reference: A. O. Averianov. 2002. Review of Mesozoic and Cenozoic sea turtles from the former USSR. Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2):137-154 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154180: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 30.01.2014, edited by Mihaela Krause and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Rhizopoda
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.2 BruguiƩre 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina sp.2 d'Orbigny 1847
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Gisilina cf. gisii2 Roemer 1841
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis2 Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea sp.2 Vialov 1936 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum sp.2 Faujas-St.-Fond 1799 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria cf. caudigera2 Zittel 1866 pearl oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) danica2 scallop
Subspecies "Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) danica volgensis", "Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) danica danica"
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Mclearnia) sp.2 Meek 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema cf. haeggi2 Dhondt 1971 scallop
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp.2 Menard 1807 clam
Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Turgaiscapha kushmurunica n. gen. n. sp. Averianov 2002 leatherback
Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Elasmodus avirostrus1 Averianov 1999 plownose chimaera