Where: Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan (49.6° N, 57.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 51.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Koldenen-Temir Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Kublei beds, Koldenen-Temir Formation. Upper Santonian in Glickman & Averianov (1998), Campanian in Averianov (2001).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L.S. Glickman, V.I. Zhelezko in 1968
Primary reference: A. O. Averianov. 2001. Systematics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene chimaeroid fish of the genus Elasmodus (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali). Paleontological Journal 35:289-300 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 214307: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.09.2020
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Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmodus zharyk Averianov 1999 plownose chimaera |