Tuarkyr, Koimat Range (unit 19) (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (40.4° N, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 52.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stoliczkaia dispar ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Upper part of Stoliczkaia dispar zone. Layer 19.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.A. Korotkov

• Repository: Central Geological and Prospecting Museum, St. Petersburg (TsGM)

Primary reference: A. A. Atabekyan. 1985. Turrilitidy pozdnego Al'ba i Cenomana yuga SSSR. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Ministerstvo Geologii SSSR, Mezhvedomstvennyy Stratigraficheskiy Komitet SSSR, Trudy 14:1-111 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183300: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Stoliczkaia aff. tetragona" = Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) tetragona
"Stoliczkaia aff. tetragona" = Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) tetragona Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
"Saltericeras sp." = Schloenbachia
"Saltericeras sp." = Schloenbachia Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Mariella (Mariella) bergeri Brongniart 1822 ammonite