Kyzylsai-Maastrichtian: Maastrichtian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia pygmaea
3 specimens
Salenia belgica Lambert 1887
2 specimens
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata (Schluter 1883)
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiotaxis heberti
1 specimen
Echinocorys obliqua
9 specimens
Echinocorys scutata (Leske 1778)
2 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Cyclaster galei Jeffery 1997
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 53.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 46.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48024
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-03-10 12:05:37 Last modified:2005-03-10 14:05:38
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-10 12:05:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12854. C. H. Jeffery. 1997. All Change at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary? Echinoids from the Maastrichtian and Danian of the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan. Palaeontology 40(3):659-712 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]