Tuarkyr, Akkol Mountain, unit 3 (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (40.4° N, 54.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 50.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Submantelliceras saxbii ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.V. Titova

• Repository: Central Geological and Prospecting Museum, St. Petersburg (TsGM)

Primary reference: A. A. Atabekyan. 1985. Turrilitidy pozdnego Al'ba i Cenomana yuga SSSR. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Ministerstvo Geologii SSSR, Mezhvedomstvennyy Stratigraficheskiy Komitet SSSR, Trudy 14:1-111 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186611: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Mariella (Mariella) lewesiensis" = Mariella lewesiensis
"Mariella (Mariella) lewesiensis" = Mariella lewesiensis Spath 1926 ammonite