Kolbay section, level 7 (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.7° N, 54.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 48.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Neostlingoceras carcitanense subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous sandstone

• Limonitic sand

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the OUM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, C. King, and D. J. Ward. 2008. The upper Albian and lower Cenomanian succession at Kolbay, eastern Mangyshlak (southwest Kazakhstan). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 78:117-147 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175009: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Algerites ellipticus Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
Mantelliceras lymense Spath 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras mediasiaticum Luppov 1963 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite