Nalchik, Caucasus (Danian) (Paleocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (43.5° N, 43.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.5° N, 45.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. N. Shimansky. 1975. Melovye Nautiloidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 150:1-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165636: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Hercoglossa danica Schlotheim 1820