Bugunzha River, Ptychites-Flexoptychites beds (Beznosov coll) (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (44.1° N, 40.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.0° N, 40.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: balatonicus ammonoid zone, Acheshbok Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N.V. Beznosov in 1972; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99513: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Flexoptychites bugunzhensis Shevyrev 1968 ceratite
Ptychites besnosovi n. sp. Shevyrev 1995 ceratite