Dash-Salakhly (Paleocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (41.1° N, 45.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 49.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 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 86777: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Faksephyllia faxoensis Beck 1835 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Schizocyathus daschsalachlyensis n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1987 stony coral