Also known as Hizorut
Where: Vayots Dzor, Armenia (39.6° N, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 42.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Subprionocyclus neptuni ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• The pterosaur bone cooccurred with the ammonite Reesidites minimus, a characteristic species of the Subprionocyclus neptuni Zone, the upper zone of the Upper Turonian in the West European scale. Unnamed stratigraphic unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. A. Atabekyan in 1986
Primary reference: L. A. Nessov. 1990. Flying reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the USSR and the significance of their remains for the reconstruction of paleogeographic conditions. Bulletin of Leningrad University, Series 7, Geology and Geography 4(28):3-10 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92185: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 03.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Magnoliopsida | |
Dicotylophyllum sp. Saporta 1894 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Reesidites minimus Hayasaka and Fukada 1951 ammonite | |
Tongoboryceras rhodanicus ammonite
Lewesiceras mantelli Wright and Wright 1951 ammonite | |
"Scaphites geinitzi" = Scaphites geinitzii
"Scaphites geinitzi" = Scaphites geinitzii d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam | |
Reptilia | |
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