Yuzhno-Pyakutinskaya BH-17, Bed BS9, Surgut facies region (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (63.6° N, 73.8° E: paleocoordinates 60.7° N, 67.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ust'-Balyk Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Bed BS9; equivalents of the Propolyptychites quadrifidus zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• thinly alternating siltstones and fine-grained sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: V. A. Zakharov, V. A. Kazanenkov, and Y. I. Bogomolov. 1999. Biostratigraphy of the Neocomian of the northern Ob' region. Russian Geology and Geophysics 40(8):1117-1129 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64296: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Hudlestonella sp. Cossmann 1909 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula sp. Wood 1839 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae