Mount Klement’ev, bed 9: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gaudryna pyramidata
Ashcemonella cf. grandis
Hyperramina elongata
Hormosinidae
Subreophax scalaria
Rhizamminidae
Rhizammina indivisa
Spiroplectamminidae
Spiroplectammina spectabilis
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 35.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 30.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Foram zone: Spiroplectammina spectabilis
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Mount Klement’ev Local bed:30 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of foraminiferal and belemnite biostratigraphy; Spiroplectammina spectabilis foram zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 9 near middle of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dolomite. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by the authors. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for foraminifera. Macrofossils (bivalves, cephalopods) are reported in be present. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91065
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2009-09-03 11:46:11 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-03 11:46:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30656. L. F. Kopaevich, A. S. Alekseev, A. M. Nikishin, V. N. Ben'yamoviskii, E. V. Yakovishina, E. A. Sokolova, and A. I. Voznesenskii. 2009. On Late Maastrichtian–Early Danian Water Masses and Lithologic and Foraminifer Assemblages in Different Tectonic Zones of the Mountainous Crimea. Moscow University Geology Bulletin 62(3):164-172 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]