Where: Takhar, Afghanistan (36.6° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 72.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baba Darves Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. B. Quarto di Palo. 1970. Upper Cretaceous molluscs and brachiopods from Badakhshan. in Fossils of north-east Afghanistan 77-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Manojlovic]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78045: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster |