Ko 1, Kamenyi Ourag locality on the Kuibyshev Reservoir, Volga River: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Aspidoceras caletanum (Oppel 1863)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae
Pararasenia hibridus
spelled with current rank as Aulacostephanus (Pararasenia)
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation
Coordinates: 54.6° North, 48.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.3° North, 50.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Kamenyi Ourag Local bed:Ko 1
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ko 1 - 0.50 m; Eudoxus Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Lithology description: The stage crops out on the waterside of the Kuibyshev Reservoir (Volga River, 25 km north of the town of Ulyanovsk), between Dubky and Mimei localities. It is a thick alternance (54 m and visual gap) of marls and argillaceous limestones, containing only one black shale horizon.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:58847
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-25 12:53:04 Last modified:2006-03-21 03:17:52
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-25 12:53:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16687. P. Hantzpergue, F. Baudin, V. Mitta, A. Olferiev, and V. A. Zakharov. 1998. The Upper Jurassic of the Volga basin: ammonites biostratigraphy and correlations with standard European zonations. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sciences de la terre et des planetes 326:633-640 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]