Sumbar River, between Tausan and Chokhrok gorges (package 1) (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (38.4° N, 56.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 52.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Lower part of Mantelliceras mantelli zone. Analogue of package 1 of unit 7 of section 2 on the right bank.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

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 186731: 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
Hypoturrilites tuberculatus Bosc 1801 ammonite