61 AD-34/1, Mohammad Aba (Cretaceous to of Afghanistan)

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

• brown and grey 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
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Haustator multiplicatus Pcelincev 1954 turret shell
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Trochactaeon matensis Fittipaldi 1900 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sauvagesia sanfilippoi Parona 1933 rudist
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Aphrodina plana Sowerby 1813 venus clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam