Ak-Syrtau well, north Aktau, Mangyshlak (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.2° N, 52.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 47.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Submantelliceras saxbii ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Phosphorite at the base of the Submantelliceras saxbii zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite

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 186700: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Neostlingoceras carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis
"Neostlingoceras carcitanense" = Neostlingoceras carcitanensis Matheron 1842 ammonite