Yukhary Gushchular (member: 3) (Jurassic of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (46.8° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 44.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, tuffaceous, sandy limestone

• Limestone; rock is sandy, containing tuffaceous

•material. The member lower part (up to 1 m) contains

•abundant columnals of crinoids.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. A. Zakharov and A. A. Kasumzade. 2005. On the boreal genus Buchia (Bivalvia) from the Tithonian of the lesser Caucasus. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 13(6):606-612 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130886: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Punctaptychus punctatus
Punctaptychus punctatus Voltz 1837 ammonoid aptychus
fractocosta
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Subplanites contiguus
Subplanites contiguus Catullo 1846 ammonite
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Lamellaptychus cf. beyrichi
Lamellaptychus cf. beyrichi ammonoid aptychus
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia sp.
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop