61 AE-13, Farkhar Valley (Cretaceous of Afghanistan)

Where: Takhar, Afghanistan (36.6° N, 69.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 72.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baba Darves Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brown marly 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 78079: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Amphidonte columba" = Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Amphidonte conica Sowerby 1813 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Thomasites sp. Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite