Apsheron Peninsula, Baku Region (Miocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 50.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 48.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• Not stated, but Oligo-Miocene rocks seem to be primarily marine in the Apsheron peninsula

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Collection of the Geological Committee

Primary reference: A. V. Martynov. 1927. On two fossil dragonflies from the Caucasus. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 21:1-5 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127434: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 14.05.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Aeshnidae
Heliaeschna parallela n. sp.
Heliaeschna parallela n. sp. Martynov 1927 darner dragonfly
Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Anenchelum lednevi2
Anenchelum lednevi2 Menner 1949
 Scombriformes - Stromateidae
Pinichthys fractus n. gen. n. sp.1
Pinichthys fractus n. gen. n. sp.1 Bannikov 1985
 Scombriformes - Nomeidae
Psenicubiceps sp.1
Psenicubiceps sp.1 Danil'chenko 1980
1Bannikov 1985; 2Monsch and Bannikov 2011