Yany-Man'ya River-1 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (62.5° N, 59.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 55.8° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chetaites sibiricus zone, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

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

• lithology described as silty, sandy grayish-green nodular chloritolite with sparse fine gravel

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 2494: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 06.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
cf. Uralella gigantea Makridin 1964
originally entered as "Uralella cf. gigantea"
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
? Corbicella sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 clam
originally entered as "Corbicella? sp."
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites indet. Lamarck 1799 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Chetaites sp. Shul'gina 1962 ammonite