Mount Klement’ev, bed 1 (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (45.0° N, 35.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 30.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hormosina ovulum foram zone, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of foraminiferal and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 1 at base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dolomite. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by the authors. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: L. F. Kopaevich, A. S. Alekseev, A. M. Nikishin, V. N. Ben'yamoviskii, E. V. Yakovishina, E. A. Sokolova, and A. I. Voznesenskii. 2009. On Late Maastrichtian–Early Danian Water Masses and Lithologic and Foraminifer Assemblages in Different Tectonic Zones of the Mountainous Crimea. Moscow University Geology Bulletin 62(3):164-172 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91057: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for foraminifera. Macrofossils (bivalves, cephalopods) are reported in be present. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
 Hormosinacea - Aschemocellidae
 Astrorhizacea - Rhabdamminidae
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
 Astrorhizacea - Rhizamminidae
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
 Lituolacea - Ammosphaeroidinidae
 Textulariacea - Valvulinidae