Echki Dag (Middle Callovian) (Jurassic of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.9° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 50.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal limestone

• limestone with oolites and chlorite (leptochlorite=chamosite)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Kharkov State University (now University of Kharkiv)

Primary reference: V. P. Kamyshan and L. I. Babanova. 1973. Middle Jurassic and Upper Jurassic brachiopods of the north-west Caucasus and Mountain Crimea. Vysha Shkola of the University of Kharkov 1-176 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163458: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 27.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Thurmannella thurmanni" = Xestosina thurmanni
"Thurmannella thurmanni" = Xestosina thurmanni Voltz 1833
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Aulacothyris karabugasensis Moisseiev 1944
80 shells and 65 internal molds
Aulacothyris pala Buch 1833