Moscow Basin, borehole 151, sample 2 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Vladimir, Russian Federation (56.2° N, 39.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 33.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified chert and lithified claystone

• opoka

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: V. S. Vishnevskaya and P. De Wever. 1998. Upper Cretaceous Radiolaria from the Russian Platform (Moscow Basin). Revue de Micropaleontologie 41(3):235-265 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95997: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Dictyomitra formosa Squinabol 1904 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Acaeniotyle sp. Foreman 1973 radiolarian