Cape Urdyuk-Khaya-9 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (73.0° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 75.5° N, 91.9° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bojarkia mesezhnikowi zone, XIV Member, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• exposure 33, layer 37-38

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty claystone

• lithology includes two thin concretional intercalationsof clayey sideritized limestone with nests of calcareous cryptocrystalline phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

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 2483: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 06.07.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Surites sp., "Bojarkia sp." = Surites (Bojarkia)
Surites sp. Sazonov 1951 ammonite
originally entered as "Surites sp."
"Bojarkia sp." = Surites (Bojarkia) Shulgina 1969 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Cylindroteuthis porrectiformis Anderson 1945 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
cf. Oxytoma arcticostata scallop
originally entered as "Oxytoma cf. arcticostata"
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop
ex gr. Buchia volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop
originally entered as "Buchia ex gr. volgensis"
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Lituolacea - Ammosphaeroidinidae
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
ex gr. Haplophragmoides schleiferi
originally entered as "Haplophragmoides ex gr. schleiferi"
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
originally entered as "Ammobaculites spp."
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
cf. Lenticulina gudinae
originally entered as "Lenticulina cf. gudinae"
Foraminifera
  -
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina), "Marginulina impropria" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina impropria" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)