Outcrop 105, Zharyk River, Mugodzhary Mountains (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

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
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Elasmodus zharyk Averianov 1999 plownose chimaera