61 AD-68, Darra Sarkhao-Doshi (Cretaceous to of Afghanistan)

Where: Baghlan, Afghanistan (35.6° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 71.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• "Massive Turonian Limestone" of Popol and Tromp, 1954

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified 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 78089: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonte vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita nicaisei Coquand 1862 clam