Right bank of Bolshoi Zelenchuk, upstream of Ispravnaya (locality 8) (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (44.0° N, 41.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 47.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oraniceras wuerttembergicum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Confined to the lower subzones of the lower zone of the Lower Bathonian of the standard scale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.V. Mitta in 2014; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. V. Mitta. 2015. Genus Oraniceras (Parkinsoniidae, Ammonoidea) from the lower Bathonian of southern European Russia. Paleontological Journal 49:595-601 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174675: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae
Oraniceras scythicum n. sp. Mitta 2015 ammonite