Sumgait River, Gobustan, Maikop Group, a3 Burdigalian: Burdigalian, Azerbaijan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Leiognatoides minutus
Jugalandaceae indet.
Chenopodiacea indet.
Myriaceae indet.
Ulmacea indet.
Englehardia sp.
Juglandacea indet.
Actinopteri - Priacanthidae
Priacanthus artus Danil'chenko 1980
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Sardinella sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1847
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia sp. Endlicher 1847
Taxodium sp. Richard 1810
Glyptostrobus sp. Endlicher 1847
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Cedrus sp. Trew 1757
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753
Pinopsida - Pinales - Taxodiaceae
Taxodiaceae indet. Saporta 1865
Angiospermae - Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodiaceae indet. Ventenant 1799
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglandaceae indet. Perleb 1818
Carya sp. Nuttall 1818
Ginkgoopsida - Ephedrales - Ephedraceae
Ephedra sp. Linnaeus 1753
unclassified
Merluccius errans (Smirnov 1935)
original and current combination Spinogadus errans
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales
Batiacasphaera sphaerica
Batiacasphaera hirsuta
Batiacasphaera micropapillata
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
cf. Systematophora sp. Klement 1960
Impagidinium sp. Stover and Evitt 1978
Pterodinium sp. Eisenack 1958
Operculodinium piaseckerii
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales
Cleistosphaeridium sp. Davey 1966
Reticulatosphaera sp. Matsuoka 1983
Dinophyceae
Spiniferites sp. Mantell 1850
Caligodinium sp. Drugg 1970
Dinophyceae - Peridiniales
Stoveracysta sp. Clowes 1985
Dinophyceae - Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Deflandrea sp. Eisenack 1938
Dinophyceae
Distatodinium biffi
cf. Apteodinium sp. Eisenack 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:Azerbaijan
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 49.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 48.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Maikop Member:a3; 6 & 7
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown claystone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark chocolate clays ferruginate at the weathered surface, bearing jarosite and gypsum
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:116625
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-10 00:28:52 Last modified:2011-09-09 10:33:40
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-10 00:28:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37562. S. V. Popov, E. K. Sychevskaya, M. A. Akhmet'ev, N. I. Zaporohets, and L. A. Golovina. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 16(6):664-677 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]