Kurgan, south of (Eocene of Russian Federation)
Where: Russian Federation (56.3° N, 65.6° E: paleocoordinates 56.8° N, 60.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tavda Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and claystone
• Tavda Formation in the section consists of two beds. The basal 0.4 meter of the sediments are turquoise non−calcare− ous clays, overlain by bright green non−calcareous clays with numerous beds and lenses of poorly−sorted glauconitic quartz sand. In the upper part of the bed there is a 0.7 meter thick lens of poorly−sorted sand, with phosphate pebbles and nodules in the top. This lens contains a huge number of shark teeth, as well as the bones of bony fish and marine mammals. The clays below and above this lens contains a dinoflagellate assemblage with Charlesdowniea clathrata angulosa indi− cating a Priabonian age.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Malyshkina. 2006. Late Eocene scyliorhinid sharks from the Trans−Urals, Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(3):465-475 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 149624: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Premontreia (Premontreia) uralica n. sp. Malyshkina 2006 cat shark | |
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