Yukhary Gushchular (member: 2) (Jurassic of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (46.8° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 44.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly phosphorite and lithified, pebbly limestone

• Basal bed; the bed is composed of porphyrite

•and limestone pebbles

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. A. Zakharov and A. A. Kasumzade. 2005. On the boreal genus Buchia (Bivalvia) from the Tithonian of the lesser Caucasus. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 13(6):606-612 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130885: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Pygopidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Glochiceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Haploceras sp. Zittel 1870 ammonite
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Lamellaptychus beyrichi ammonoid aptychus
Lamellaptychus lamellosus ammonoid aptychus
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam