Verkhorech'ye, Gory Belaya (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.7° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 48.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• cephalopod limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.N. Komarov in 2008

• Repository: RGGRU (Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyy Geolograzvedochnyy Universitet)

Primary reference: V. N. Komarov and E. I. Sannikova. 2009. First record of Pygites Buckman (Terebratulida, Brachiopoda) in the Mountain Crimea. Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedeniy Geologiya i Razvedka 3:85-86 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163760: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 10.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Pygopidae
Pygites magomaevi n. sp. Komarov and Sannikova 2009