Yukhary Gushchular (member: 6) (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: 6 Member, Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Limestone, light pinkish gray, sandy, paralami-

•nated, containing abundant though poorly preserved

•shells of bivalves

•ter.

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 130888: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop