Ussuri Bay coast 6, Primorsky, Russia (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (43.0° N, 132.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 135.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chigan Formation, Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Late Volgian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty sandstone

• Fine-grained greenish-gray sandstones with rare thin siltstone intercalations and bands light-colored medium-grained sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: I. I. Sey and E. D. Kalacheva. 1999. Lower Berriasian of Southern Primorye (Far East Russia) and the problem of Boreal--Tethyan correlation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 150(1-2):49-63 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47702: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 01.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Dalmasiceras orientale n. sp. Sey and Kalacheva 1999 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop
Buchia fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 scallop