Kessy River, western Kopetdag (unit 4) (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (39.0° N, 55.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 51.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Euomphaloceras cunningtoni ammonoid zone, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 16 m above the level of specimen No. 132, 10 m below the top of unit 4

• 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 186741: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite