Baisal, Bed 21 (Permian of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (39.6° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 40.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khachik Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified, micaceous sandstone

• Interbedded dark gray to gray mottled, fine-grained, locally silicified limestone with micaceous sandstone or sandy-calcareous aleurolites (mudstone)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. V. Kotlyar, Y.u. D. Zakharov, G. S. Kropatcheva, G. P. Pronina, I. O. Chedija and V. I. Burago. 1989. Evolution of the latest Permian biota: Midian regional stage in the USSR 1-184 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94941: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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 Lagenina - Partisaniidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Baisalinidae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
 Productida -
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Acosarina sp. Cooper and Grant 1969