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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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea - Parisididae
Parisis melitensis Goldfuss 1827 gorgonian