Sassyk-Teke River (Permian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (39.2° N, 72.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 68.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chelamchin Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.I. Shabalkin

Primary reference: O. G. Tumanskaya. 1939. Permskie ammonei Zaalayskogo Khrebta i ikh enachenie dlya stratigrafii Pamira. Problemy Paleontologii 5:93-137 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156577: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Artinskia sassykensis n. sp. Tumanskaya 1939 ammonite
Medlicottia sp. Waagen 1880 ammonite
Medlicottia orbignyana de Verneuil 1845 ammonite
Propinacoceras spp. Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
Propinacoceras busterense Tumanskaya 1939 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras spp. Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
"Marathonites" sp. Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
"Riphaeites schabalkini n. sp." = Eothinites kargalensis
"Riphaeites schabalkini n. sp." = Eothinites kargalensis Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae
Popanoceras sobolewskyanum de Verneuil 1845 ammonite
var. transalayensis