Akusha (Unit 6) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (42.3° N, 47.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 52.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gundara Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium sandstone

• Series of interbedding fine and medium grained, polymictic, cloddy sandstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Smirnova; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: T. N. Smirnova. 2012. Early Cretaceous Rhynchonellids of Dagestan: System, Morphology, Stratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Significance. Paleontological Journal 46(11):1197-1296 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155770: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 30.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Burrirhynchia oweni Smirnova 2012
Kudrjavzevina fragilis Smirnova 2012
Kudrjavzevina regularis Smirnova 2012