Where: Afghanistan (37.5° N, 71.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 78.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Karkar Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• detritus at the base of Karkar section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Desio in 1961

Primary reference: C. R. Ronchetti. 1970. New contributions to the knowledge of the Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Northeast Afghanistan). Ital. Expedit., Karakorum (K2) Hindu Kush, Scientific Reports IV, Paleontology – Zoology – Botany 2:43-74 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76925: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.12.2007

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