Western Kopetdag Mountains (Paleocene of Turkmenistan)
Where: Turkmenistan (38.7° N, 56.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 50.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sumbar Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Lower Danian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86800: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2009
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Anthozoa | |
Parisis melitensis Goldfuss 1827 gorgonian |