Basin Bolschoi Anjui, Vurguveem (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (64.0° N, 162.0° E: paleocoordinates 72.3° N, 113.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: L. V. Milova. 1976. Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy and Bivalvia of northern Priokhotye. Akademia Nauk SSSR, Trudy Severo-Vost. Kompl. Nauchno. Issled. Institut 65 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39320: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma punctata Sowerby 1818 file clam
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
sp. 1 and sp. 2
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys vurguveemensis, Chlamys proprius n. sp., "Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus
Chlamys proprius n. sp. scallop
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
n. subsp. borealis
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea monstrosa n. sp. oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Polymorphites sp. Haug 1887 ammonite