Bol'shoy Balkhan Mountains (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Krasnovodskaya Oblast, Turkmenistan (39.7° N, 54.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 50.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86760: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Smilotrochus elongatus Duncan 1870 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia coronula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral