Bol'shoy Zelenchuk River (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (45.2° N, 39.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 34.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-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 86774: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia cylindrica Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral