Mount Kelevudag section, Kyulyuli Formation, Sample sample 05-7-31 (Cretaceous of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (41.1° N, 48.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 47.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Kyulyuli Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Middle - Upper Albian.

•55 m above the base of the upper member

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty marl and sandstone

• Light yellowish gray and greenish gray opoka like thinbedded marlstones with intercalations of light gray medium to finegrained sandstones, gray and yellowish gray clays, gray siliceous mudstones, and black combustible shales.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. G. Bragina and N. Y. Bragin. 2015. New Data on Albian–Coniacian Radiolarians from the Kelevudag Section (Northeastern Azerbaijan). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 23(1):45-56 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165697: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Thanarla veneta Squinabol 1903 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Holocryptocanium barbui Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
 Nassellaria - Obeliscoitidae
 Nassellaria - Xitidae
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera ? mellifera O'Dogherty 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae