Apsheron Peninsula (Miocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 50.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 49.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov. 2011. New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102(4):253-300 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186464: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
 Gadiformes - Moridae