Belbek River, Polus Mountain (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.6° N, 33.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 44.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, argillaceous lime mudstone

• White and light grey chalk-like clayey limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute (SPGGI)

Primary reference: V. V. Arkadiev, A. A. Atabekian, E. Y. Baraboshkin and T. N. Bogdanova. 2000. Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255:85-128 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183313: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus cf. sayni de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite