Paksa Peninsula, Chetaites sibiricus zone, Yakutia, Siberia (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (73.9° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 76.2° N, 89.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Chetaites sibiricus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified siltstone

• relatively deep water environments in the central part of the Khatanga Basin
• clayey siltstone with concretions, 4 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: N. I. Shulgina, M. D. Burdykina, V. A. Basov and N. Arhus. 1994. Distribution of ammonites, foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts in the Lower Cretaceous reference sections of the Khatanga Basin, and Boreal Valanginian biogeography. Cretaceous Research 15(1):1-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65699: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterospermella australiensis
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Pterospermella australiensis Deflandre and Cookson 1955
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
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"Marginulina subformosa" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
Orietalia ex gr. baccula
listed as Orientalia
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
 Lituolacea - Ammosphaeroidinidae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Dinophyceae
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  - Pareodiniaceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
 Gonyaulacales -
Chlamydophorella sp. Cookson and Eisenack 1958
Cleistosphaeridium sp. Davey 1966
sp. B
 Gonyaulacales - Areoligeraceae
 Gonyaulacales -
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Borealites sp. Klimova 1969 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Chetaites cf. sibiricus Shul'gina 1962 ammonite