Where: Armenia (39.9° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° N, 52.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: U.A.Z. 3–4 zone, Early/Lower Bajocian to Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, red radiolarite
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: T. Danelian, G. Asatryan, M. Sosson, A. Person, L. Sahakyan and G. Galoyan. 2008. Discovery of Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Radiolaria from the sedimentary cover of the Vedi ophiolite (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia). Comptes Rendus Palevol 7:327-334 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131355: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 23.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Eucyrtidiellum unumaense Yao 1979 radiolarian | |
Williriedellum cf. buekkense, Williriedellum yaoi, Williriedellum madstonense, Striatojaponocapsa plicarum
Williriedellum cf. buekkense radiolarian
Williriedellum yaoi radiolarian
Williriedellum madstonense Pessagno et al. 1993 radiolarian | |
Saitoum cf. levium De Wever 1981 radiolarian | |
Stichocapsa convexa Yao 1979 radiolarian
Cyrtocapsa mastoidea Yao 1979 radiolarian | |
? Dictyomitrella kamoensis Mizutani and Kido 1983 radiolarian | |
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis Yao 1979 radiolarian | |
Archaeodictyomitra prisca radiolarian
Archaeodictyomitra rigida Pessagno 1977 radiolarian | |
Transhsuum sp. Takemura 1986 radiolarian | |
Unuma echinatus Ichikawa and Yao 1976 radiolarian | |
Hexasaturnalis suboblongus radiolarian |