Mount Klement’ev, bed 11: Late Maastrichtian, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites agglutinans
Ammosphaeroidinidae
Recurvoides cf. walteri
Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
Psammosphaeridae
Psammosphaera scruposa
Valvulinidae
Eggerella sp.
Spiroplectamminidae
Spiroplectammina navarroana
unclassified
Rhabdamina cylidrica
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 35.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 30.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian Foram zone:  Spiroplectammina spectabilis
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Mount Klement’ev Local bed:38 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of foraminiferal and belemnite biostratigraphy; Spiroplectammina spectabilis foram zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 11 in upper part of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dolomite. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by the authors. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for foraminifera. Macrofossils (bivalves, cephalopods) are reported in be present. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91067
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-03 11:47:12 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-03 11:47:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30656. L. F. Kopaevich, A. S. Alekseev, A. M. Nikishin, V. N. Ben'yamoviskii, E. V. Yakovishina, E. A. Sokolova, and A. I. Voznesenskii. 2009. On Late Maastrichtian–Early Danian Water Masses and Lithologic and Foraminifer Assemblages in Different Tectonic Zones of the Mountainous Crimea. Moscow University Geology Bulletin 62(3):164-172 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]