Beshterek, Simferopol area, Crimea (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Also known as Reef 3515

Where: Ukraine (45.0° N, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 39.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. G. Klikushin. 1987. Thiolliericrinid crinoids from the Lower Cretaceous of Crimea. Geobios 20(5):625-665 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69008: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• number of individuals = number of calyxes
Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Thiolliericrinidae