61 AD-35, Baba Darves (Cretaceous of Afghanistan)

Where: Takhar, Afghanistan (36.8° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 71.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baba Darves Formation, Senonian (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brown and grey 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 78082: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Amphidonte decussata" = Exogyra overwegi
"Amphidonte decussata" = Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Rectithyris subdepressa Stoliczka 1872