Sample 15520, Kulchar Gorge, northern Aktau, Mangyshlak (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.3° N, 51.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 46.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.M. Pavlova

• 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 186733: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites tuberculatus Bosc 1801 ammonite