o/c 598 Verkhnesoinskiy (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (50.7° N, 41.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 37.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• interval 0.8 m, sample 22, redeposition in the Oboyanskaya Formation (Paleocene)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty claystone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: I. Popova-Goll, V. Vishnevskaya, and P. O. Baumgartner. 2005. Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) radiolarians from Voronesh Anticline, southwestern Russia. Micropaleontology 51(1):1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95166: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Xitidae
Xitus asymbatos Foreman 1968 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
Amphipyndax stocki Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Lithocampida
Lithocampe cf. marinae Gorbovetz 1966 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Dictyomitra densicostata Pessagno 1976 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae
Porodiscus cf. vulgaris Lipman 1952 radiolarian
Spongodiscus volgensis Lipman 1952 radiolarian
Euchitonia santonica Lipman 1952 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum bipartitum Pessagno 1973 radiolarian