West Kopetdag, upper Aydere River, Sovutly Canyon (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (38.4° N, 56.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 53.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• About 85-90 m above the base of the Stoliczkaia dispar zone and 20-25 m below the base of the Cenomanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 183302: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Ostlingoceras (Ostlingoceras) puzosianum" = Ostlingoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Pseudhelicoceras robertianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
Mariella (Mariella) bergeri Brongniart 1822 ammonite