Butakov guyot, sample 39D33 (Cretaceous of North Pacific)

Where: North Pacific (11.6° N, 156.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 169.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Late Campanian-Maastrichtian, likely middle Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone

• Micritic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Research Ship Gelendzhik in 2009

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Far Eastern Geological Institute (DVGI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov, M. E. Melnikov, A. M. Popov, S. P. Pletnev, V. D. Khudik and T. A. Punina. 2012. Cephalopod and brachiopod fossils from the Pacific: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of the Magellan Seamounts. Geobios 45:145-156 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209770: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras sp., "Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras)
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
"Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) Salfeld 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
? Anagaudryceras "sp. A", Gaudryceras sp., Pseudophyllites cf. indra
? Anagaudryceras "sp. A" Shimizu 1934 ammonite
Gaudryceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
Pseudophyllites cf. indra Forbes 1846 ammonite