Sumgait River, Gobustan, Koun Formation: Priabonian, Azerbaijan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dinophyceae - Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Coccolithophyceae - Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae
Coccolithophyceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Azerbaijan
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 49.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 49.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Priabonian
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koun Member:1 & 2
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray,green claystone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45884
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-11 13:46:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-11 13:46:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

37562. S. V. Popov, E. K. Sychevskaya, M. A. Akhmet'ev, N. I. Zaporohets, and L. A. Golovina. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 16(6):664-677 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12216 A. Riabinin. 1938. Microzeuglodon aff. caucasicum Lyd. from the Upper Maikop beds of Kabristan. Problems of Paleontology 4:137-185 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]