Zhitkov Cape in Russian Island, Bed 67 (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Primorye, Russian Federation (43.0° N, 131.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 111.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhitkov Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Upper Olenekian, Russian Substage, Subcolumbites multiformis Zone, Zhitkov Suite, Layer 67 (5.3m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and lithified siltstone

• Mudstone and siltstone with sandstone interbeds, calcareous-marly nodules and lenses.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov, A. M. Popov, and G. I. Buryi. 2004. Triassic Ammonoid succession in South Primorye: 3. Late Olenekian - Early Anisian Zones (Neocolumbites insignis, Subcolumbites multiformis, Ussuriphyllites amurensis and Leiophyllites pradyumna). Albertiana 31:54-64 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47306: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Columbitidae
Columbites sp., "Subcolumbites multiformis" = Subfengshanites multiformis
Columbites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
"Subcolumbites multiformis" = Subfengshanites multiformis Kiparisova 1947 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paragoceratidae
"Arnautoceltites sp." = Paragoceras
"Arnautoceltites sp." = Paragoceras Arthaber 1911 ceratite