Where: Turkmenistan (40.1° N, 55.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 59.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• 1 m of bioclastic calcareous sandstone, capped by a thin horizon with numerous internal molds of bivalves followed by 2 m of siltstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, calcareous siliciclastic sediments and poorly lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Museo di Paleontologia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, via Mangiagalli (Italy)

Primary reference: F. Cecca, A. V. Dhondt, and T. N. Bogdanova. 1999. The Aptian stratigraphy of the southern Tuarkyr (NW Turkmenistan, Central Asia). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105(3):377-396 [F. Cecca/F. Cecca/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47019: authorized by Fabrizio Cecca, entered by Fabrizio Cecca on 31.01.2005

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