Where: Saratovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation (52.0° N, 47.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 40.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Syzran Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• lower part of the formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86698: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Parisis "sp. 2" gorgonian | |
"Caryophyllia matesovae" = Caryophyllia konincki
"Caryophyllia matesovae" = Caryophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Goniopora websteri Bowerbank 1840 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral |