Temir-Baba, Drill Hole 1, 3784-3791m, southern Mangyshlak (Triassic of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (41.9° N, 52.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 52.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dolnapinskaya Formation, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: TsNIG Museum, St. Petersburg

Primary reference: V. A. Gavrilova. 1995. O nekotorykh rannetriasovykh pektinatseiakh predkavkaz’ia i mangyshlaka [On some Early Triassic Pectinacea (Bivalvia) from the Eastern Pre-Caucasus and Mangyshlak]. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Geological Series 70(5):83-97 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203772: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Ornithopecten temirbabensis n. sp. Kiparisova 1980 scallop
TsNIG Museum, No. 3/11012 (holotype)