Egeknadzorskii region, village of Areni (Cretaceous of Armenia)

Where: Armenia (39.7° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 39.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: TsNIGR (Central Scientific-Research Geological Exploration Museum, St. Petersburg)

Primary reference: V. V. Arkadiev, A. A. Atabekian, E. Y. Baraboshkin and T. N. Bogdanova. 2000. Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 255:85-128 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183328: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite