Boyarka River-9 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (70.8° N, 97.6° E: paleocoordinates 70.8° N, 81.3° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neotollia klimovskiensis zone, VI Member, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, silty sandstone

• lithology includes two intercalations of medium to fine-grained sandstones with calcite cement, the lower of these contains masses of mollusk shells, and is referred to as a coquina in the text

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: among trace fossils present in the interval are frequent "galleries of detritus eaters"

Primary reference: V. N. Saks, ed. 1975. The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary and the Berriasian Stage in the Boreal Realm. 1-319 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2473: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 06.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Liostrea anabarensis" = Deltoideum (Boreiodeltoideum) anabarensis Bodylevsky 1949 oyster
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
ex gr. Buchia keyserlingi Lahusen 1888 scallop
originally entered as "Buchia ex gr. keyserlingi"
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima consobrina" = Lima (Limatula) consobrina
"Lima consobrina" = Lima (Limatula) consobrina d'Orbigny 1845 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes asiaticus scallop
Camptonectes imperialis asiaticus
"Boreionectes sp." = Camptonectes (Boreionectes) Zakharov 1965 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium nummulare, "Entolium demissum" = Entolium demissus
"Entolium demissum" = Entolium demissus Phillips 1835 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell