Berd, Shamshadinsky region (Jurassic of Armenia)

Where: Armenia (40.9° N, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 51.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. S. Poretskaya. 1971. O yurskikh morskikh ezhakh Armyanskoy SSR. Izvestiya AN Armyanskoy SSR, Nauki o Zemle 6:3-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196492: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Diplocidaridae
Diplocidaris gigantea Agassiz 1840 pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Stereocidaris marginata" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Stereocidaris marginata" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin