Sumgait River, Gobustan, Maikop Group, unit b Burdigalian (Miocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 48.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: b; 8 & 9 Member, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown claystone and marl

• dark chocolate clays ferruginate at the weathered surface, bearing jarosite and gypsum

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: S. V. Popov, E. K. Sychevskaya, M. A. Akhmet'ev, N. I. Zaporohets, and L. A. Golovina. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 16(6):664-677 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116626: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodiaceae indet.
Chenopodiaceae indet. Ventenant 1799
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales -
Batiacasphaera sp.
Batiacasphaera sp. Drugg 1970