Tezheva Syncline (Cyclaster danicus gorizont) (Paleocene of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (38.4° N, 57.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 51.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cyclaster danicus other zone, Datskiy Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.N. Djabarov in 1960

• 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 196570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys obliquus Ravn 1927 sea urchin
Echinocorys sulcatus Goldfuss 1826 sea urchin