Where: Russian Federation (51.6° N, 45.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 48.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Lower Bathonian, Oraniceras besnosovi Zone, Oraniceras mojarowskii Horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. V. Mitta, I. S. Barskov, J. Gründel, V. A. Zakharov, V. B. Sel'tser, A. V. Ivanov, Y. A. Rostovtseva and L. O. Tarasova. 2004. Verkhniy bayos i nishniy bat v okrestnostyakh Saratova - Upper Bajocian and Lower Bathonian in the vicinity of Saratov. VM-Novitates (12)39pp. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68345: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007

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