Mount Kelevudag section, Alty-Agach Formation (Cretaceous of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (41.1° N, 48.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 47.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Alty-Agach Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Lower–Middle Albian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty claystone and sandstone

• Alternating green viscous clays, brownish yellow silty clays, opokalike light yellowish gray and greenish gray clays, light gray fine to middlegrained sandstones, and black combustible shales, which form inter calations up to 15 cm thick.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. G. Bragina and N. Y. Bragin. 2015. New Data on Albian–Coniacian Radiolarians from the Kelevudag Section (Northeastern Azerbaijan). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 23(1):45-56 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165695: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites pingus, Neohibolites attenuatus, Neohibolites stylioides, Neohibolites minimus
Neohibolites minimus Miller 1826 belemnite