Ussuri Bay coast 13, 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 47712: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 01.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
? Berriasella sp., Berriasella ex gr. jacobi
? Berriasella sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite
Berriasella ex gr. jacobi Mazenot 1939 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Pseudosubplanites aff. combesi
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia unschensis, Buchia piochii, Buchia fischeriana, Buchia volgensis, Buchia terebratuloides, Buchia trigonoides
Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop
Buchia fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 scallop
Buchia volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia trigonoides Lahusen Smith 1894 scallop