Mashrek Gorge, Maly Balkhan (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (39.3° N, 54.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 51.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Lower part of Stoliczkaia dispar zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 186691: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Ostlingoceras (Ostlingoceras) puzosianum" = Ostlingoceras puzosianum
"Ostlingoceras (Ostlingoceras) puzosianum" = Ostlingoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite