Where: Tajikistan (38.6° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 61.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoscaphites tridens ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Author bases age on Belemnella lanceolata and Acanhoscaphites tridens.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Y.I. Kats

• Repository: Department of Paleontology Kharkov State University (Now University of Kharkiv): Author's collection

Primary reference: Y. I. Kats. 1962. New genera of Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Tadzhik depression and adjacent regions. Zapiski Geologicheskogo Otdeleniya Kharkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 15:132-154 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163686: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.11.2014

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