Salgir River near Eski-Orda village, higher limestone blocks, Crimea (Triassic of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.9° N, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 47.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Limestone blocks in Middle Triassic-Middle Jurassic olistostrome complex. Limestone blocks confined to the middle and upper part of a 150 m thick sandstone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: TsNIGR

Primary reference: A. S. Moisseiev. 1932. O faune i flore Triasovykh otlozheniy doliny reki Salgir v Krymu. Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geologo-Razvedochnogo Obedineniya 51(39):591-604 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133097: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
"Arcestes" sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella eskiordensis n. sp. Moisseiev 1932
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae
"Spirigera oxycolpos" = Oxycolpella oxycolpos
"Spirigera oxycolpos" = Oxycolpella oxycolpos Emmrich 1853
 Athyridida - Koninckinidae
Amphiclina taurica n. sp. Moisseiev 1932
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina sp. d'Orbigny 1847
 Terebratulida - Aulacothyropsidae
"Aulacothyris almensis n. sp." = Aulacothyropsis almensis
"Aulacothyris almensis n. sp." = Aulacothyropsis almensis Moisseiev 1932
 Terebratulida - Angustothyrididae
Rhaetina taurica n. sp. Moisseiev 1932