Also known as Mount Dzhangura

Where: Karachaevo-Cherkessiya, Russian Federation (43.9° N, 41.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 47.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Djangura Formation, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• stratotype section of the Djangura Formation. The Beds with Parkinsonia pseudoplanulata and Lobosphinctes loczyi are established here for the first time at the top of the Bajocian. This interval corresponds to Beds 7–13 (according to: Besnosov and Mitta, 1998, pp. 5–7), from the scree of which only Upper Bajocian ammonites are known.

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (PIN RAS), coll. no. 5546.

Primary reference: V. V. Mitta. 2024. Superfamily Perisphinctoidea (Ammonoidea) in the Bajocian–Lower Bathonian of the Kuban River Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia). Paleontological Journal 58(1):44-55 [S. Peters/E. Mazko]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235066: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Evgeny Mazko on 29.05.2024

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