Paksa Peninsula, Homolsomites bojarkensis zone, Yakutia, Siberia (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (73.9° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 75.6° N, 88.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Homolsomites bojarkensis 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, 41 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 65754: 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
unclassified
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Dinophyceae
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 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Sentusidinium sp. Sarjeant and Stover 1978
Oligosphaeridium complex Davey and Williams 1966
Sirmiodinium grossii Alberti 1961
Gonyaulacysta sp. Deflandre 1964
 Gonyaulacales -
 Gonyaulacales - Areoligeraceae
Circulodinium distinctum Jansonius 1986
 Gonyaulacales - Ceratiaceae
Muderongia simplex Alberti 1961
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae