Vedi-4 Sample, Vedi ophiolite, Lesser Caucasus (Jurassic to of Armenia)

Where: Armenia (39.9° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° N, 52.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: U.A.Z. 3–4 zone, Early/Lower Bajocian to Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, red radiolarite

• red–brownish carbonate-free radiolarites (decimetric chert beds and thin shaly interlayers)

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: T. Danelian, G. Asatryan, M. Sosson, A. Person, L. Sahakyan and G. Galoyan. 2008. Discovery of Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Radiolaria from the sedimentary cover of the Vedi ophiolite (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia). Comptes Rendus Palevol 7:327-334 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131355: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 23.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
 Nassellaria - Poulpidae
Saitoum cf. levium De Wever 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
? Dictyomitrella kamoensis Mizutani and Kido 1983 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Striatojaponocapsa plicarum Yao 1979 radiolarian
plicarum subsp.
Williriedellum yaoi radiolarian
Williriedellum madstonense Pessagno et al. 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiellidae
Eucyrtidiellum unumaense Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
Transhsuum sp. Takemura 1986 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Unumidae
Unuma echinatus Ichikawa and Yao 1976 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Archaeodictyomitra rigida Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Stichocapsa convexa Yao 1979 radiolarian
Cyrtocapsa mastoidea Yao 1979 radiolarian