Where: Takhar, Afghanistan (36.8° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 72.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baba Darves Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. B. Quarto di Palo. 1970. Upper Cretaceous molluscs and brachiopods from Badakhshan. in Fossils of north-east Afghanistan 77-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Manojlovic]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Haustator multiplicatus Pcelincev 1954 turret shell | |
Trochactaeon matensis Fittipaldi 1900 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist | |
Sauvagesia sanfilippoi Parona 1933 rudist | |
Aphrodina plana Sowerby 1813 venus clam | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam |