61 AD-34, Mohammad Aba (Cretaceous of Afghanistan)

Where: Takhar, Afghanistan (36.8° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 73.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baba Darves Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brown and grey limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. B. Quarto di Palo. 1970. Upper Cretaceous molluscs and brachiopods from Badakhshan. in Fossils of north-east Afghanistan 77-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78086: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Amphidonte conica Sowerby 1813 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
"Pycnodonte vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Trigonarca diceras" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) diceras
"Trigonarca diceras" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) diceras Seguenza 1882 clam
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist