Chorlokh Gorge, Gyaursdag Range, central Kopetdag (unit 3a) (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (37.7° N, 58.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.9° N, 70.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Upper part of Mantelliceras mantelli zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray, blue sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 186728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites gravesianus d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite