Where: Turkmenistan (38.1° N, 57.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 53.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sternotaxis planus other zone, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Instituta Geologii Gosgeolkoma SSSR (Ashkhabad) = Institute of Geology of the State Geological Committee of the USSR (Askhabad)
Primary reference: G. N. Djabarov. 1964. Verkhnemelovye Morskiy Ezhi Tsentral'nogo Kopet-Daga i ikh Stratigraficheskoe Znachenie 1-114 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Sternotaxis planus Mantell 1822 heart urchin |