Chubukulakh River Basin, lower Karadan Formation, Yakutiya (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (70.8° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 83.6° N, 18.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karadan Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Ussuriensis Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Kazakov and N. I. Kurushin. 1992. Stratigraphy of Norian and Rhaetian deposits in the northern Middle Siberia. Russian Geology and Geophysics 33(6):1-8 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69420: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Otapiria ussuriensis" = Inoceramus ussuriensis
"Otapiria ussuriensis" = Inoceramus ussuriensis Voronetz 1937 clam
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
"Zittelihalobia fallax" = Halobia (Zittelihalobia), Halobia aotii
"Zittelihalobia fallax" = Halobia (Zittelihalobia) oyster
Halobia aotii Kobayashi and Ichikawa 1949 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Tosapecten suzukii Kobayashi 1931 scallop
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria dubia Ichikawa 1954 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium kolymaense Kiparisova 1947 scallop