Boyarka River-3 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (70.8° N, 97.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 67.6° N, 70.1° E (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hectoroceras kochi zone, II Member, Berriasian (143.1 - 137.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, yellow, silty claystone

• lithology is generally a greenish-grey clayey silt, yellow brown in some places; intercalations of grey-yellow plastic clay present; horizons and individual concretions of calcareous siltstone traced throughout the member

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. N. Saks, ed. 1975. The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary and the Berriasian Stage in the Boreal Realm. 1-319 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2468: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.07.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Prorokia sp. Böhm 1883 clam
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
originally entered as "Lucina? sp."
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia uncitoides Pavlow 1907 scallop
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia okensis Pavlow 1907 scallop
Buchia fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 scallop
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites indet. Lamarck 1799 belemnite
 Belemnitida - Cylindroteuthididae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
aff. Subcraspedites subpressulus ammonite
originally entered as "Subcraspedites aff. subpressulus"
Hectoroceras kochi Spath 1947 ammonite
Surites cf. clementianus ammonite
originally entered as "Surites cf. clementianus"
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
aff. Lenticulina sossipatrovae
originally entered as "Lenticulina aff. sossipatrovae"
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae