Babatag (Cretaceous of Uzbekistan)

Also known as Qatorkŭhi Bobotogh

Where: Uzbekistan (38.6° N, 67.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 62.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• gray oyster limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Y.I. Kats

• Repository: Department of Paleontology Kharkov State University (Now University of Kharkiv)

Primary reference: Y. I. Kats. 1962. New genera of Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Tadzhik depression and adjacent regions. Zapiski Geologicheskogo Otdeleniya Kharkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 15:132-154 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163695: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dallinidae
Kafirnigania babatagensis n. sp. Kats 1962
Kafirnigania sulcata n. sp. Kats 1962
Kafirnigania pentangulata n. sp. Kats 1962