North wing of Sumbar syncline, Isak Mountain (Paleocene of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (38.5° N, 56.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 50.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chaldzhin Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• 23-25 m from the Danatin Svita

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.P. Kelugin 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 196572: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys sumbaricus n. sp. Djabarov 1964 sea urchin