Mount Saikhan Undur Ovoo, bed 9: Smithian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Meekoceratidae
Juvenites sp. Smith 1927
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Kashmiritidae
Pseudoceltites (Saikhanites) sp. Zakharov and Ehiro 2006
(6 measurements)
Pseudoceltites (Saikhanites) khenteyensis n. sp. Zakharov and Ehiro 2006
(11 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
? Flemingites sp. Waagen 1892
(1 measurement)
? Anaxenaspis sp. Kiparisova 1956
(1 measurement)
? Euflemingites sp. Spath 1934
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Prionitidae indet. Hyatt 1900
(4 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Melagathiceratidae indet. Tozer 1971
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 109.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:61.3° North, 75.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Correlated with Anasibirites nevolini zone of Primorye and Anawasatchites tardus zone of Boreal realm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified carbonaceous mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Tohoku University Museum, Sendai, Japan (IGPS)
Metadata
Database number:142564
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-13 12:07:18 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-13 12:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46290. M. Ehiro, Y. D. Zakharov, and C. Minjin. 2006. Early Triassic (Olenekian) ammonoids from Khentey Province, Mongolia, and their paleobiogeographic significance. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 5:83-97 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]