Anabar Bay, section 1A, Beani bed 2 (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: Ramulicosta ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Beani subzone

• group of beds-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 189639: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.11.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Polyptychites sp. Pavlow 1892 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia sp. des Moulins 1832 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam