Mount Kelevudag, Kemshidag Fm, Member 5, lower part (Cretaceous of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (41.1° N, 48.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 44.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 5 Member (Kemshidag Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and gray, calcareous gravel

• Dark gray clays with intercalations of yellowish gray sandy limestones and gray calcareous gravelites.

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 165730: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
 Globigerinina - Rotaliporidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae