Kuna River, Placites-Rhacophyllites beds (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (44.1° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 38.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: marshi ammonoid zone, Khodzin Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Vandaites stuerzenbaumi subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143993: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Cladiscitidae
Paracladiscites multilobatus Bronn 1832 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Stenarcestes leiostracus von Mojsisovics 1875 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Placites polydactylus von Mojsisovics 1873 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Megaphyllitidae
Megaphyllites insectus von Mojsisovics 1873 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Discophyllitidae
Rhacophyllites debilis Hauer 1846 ammonite