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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Layer 4 bears a fossiliferous base, with undetermined bivalve fragments, and it is followed by 1.5m of siltsone.

•Layer 5, which directly overlies Layer 4, is barren. Its lower part is made of 8 m of yellowish sandstone with intercalations of gray siltstone and/or finer poorly cemented sandstone; an oolitic level with fragments of molluscs on top; its upper part is made of 3.5 m of gray shale.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified shale

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 47027: authorized by Fabrizio Cecca, entered by Fabrizio Cecca on 01.02.2005

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