Badkhyz Mountains, Rakhmatur (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (35.8° N, 61.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 65.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.B. Dmitriev in 1961

• 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 196657: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster coranguinum Leske 1778 heart urchin