Where: Baghlan, Afghanistan (35.6° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 71.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
• "Massive Turonian Limestone" of Popol and Tromp, 1954
• 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 78089: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pycnodonte vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa, Pycnodonte vesicularis
"Pycnodonte vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Cardita nicaisei Coquand 1862 clam | |
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam |