Abino- Gunayskaya Zone (localities WC34-WC36, WC158z, WC158) Fm Pikhtarskaya (Jurassic to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (44.4° N, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 44.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pikhtarskaya Formation, Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 139.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: basinal (); mudstone and sandstone

• hemipelagic mudstones interbedded with varying amounts of calcareous very fine-grained to pebbly low-density turbidites deposited within a relatively deep basinal setting

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Guo, S. J. Vincent, and V. Lavrishchev. 2011. Upper Jurassic Reefs from the Russian Western Caucasus: Implications for the Eastern Black Sea. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 20:629-653 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213004: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
"Delphinella cf. obtusenodosa" = Hoplites obtusenodosa
"Delphinella cf. obtusenodosa" = Hoplites obtusenodosa Retowski 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Delphinella subchaperi Retowski 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Subplanites contiguus Catullo 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Pseudosubplanites euxinus Retowski 1894 ammonite
Pseudosubplanites ponticus Retowski 1893 ammonite
Paraulacosphinctes transitorius Oppel 1865 ammonite
Paraulacosphinctes schindewolfi Tavera 1985 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Euphylloceras serum" = Phylloceras serum Oppel 1865 ammonite
Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum Quenstedt 1845 ammonite