Anabar Bay, section 1A, bed 1 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (73.4° N, 113.8° E: paleocoordinates 75.7° N, 91.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Klimovskiensis ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bogomolov in 1980

Primary reference: Y. I. Bogomolov. 1989. Poliptikhity (Ammonity) i biostratigrafiya boreal'nogo Valanzhina. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 696:1-199 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.11.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Tollia (Tollia) tolli Pavlow 1914 ammonite
"Temnoptychites (Temnoptychites) aff. borealis" = Nikitinoceras (Russanovia) borealis Bodylevsky 1902 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae