Where: Kustanai, Kazakhstan (52.7° N, 62.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 54.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. A. Nessov in 1992
Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt, D. P. Naidin, and A. P. Levina, E., and Simon. 1996. Maastrichtian faunas from the Turgay Strait (northern Kazakhstan). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 77:49-65 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186878: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Carneithyris carnea Sowerby 1812 | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus aff. requienianus scallop
Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop
Merklinia aff. seriatopunctata scallop | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop
Neithea striatocostata Goldfuss 1833 scallop | |
Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) danica scallop | |
Anomia besrukovi jingle | |
Ostrea ajatensis oyster | |
Agerostrea sp. Vialov 1936 oyster | |
"Amphidonte decussata" = Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852 oyster
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
Pycnodonte mutabilis oyster | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Rhizopoda | |