Mount Islamdag, Eastern Slope, Maikop Group, member 1 & 2, Chattian (Oligocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 47.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: 12 Member, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown claystone and marl

• dark chocolate clays ferruginate at the weathered surface, bearing jarosite and gypsum

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: S. V. Popov, E. K. Sychevskaya, M. A. Akhmet'ev, N. I. Zaporohets, and L. A. Golovina. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 16(6):664-677 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116632: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Perospermella sp.
 Life -
Cymatiosphaera sp.
Cymatiosphaera sp. Wetzel 1933 acritarchs
Tytthodiscus
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Tytthodiscus sp.
Tytthodiscus sp. Norem 1955
Prasinophytae
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Crassosphaera sp.
Crassosphaera sp. Cookson and Manum 1960
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
Merluccius sp.
Merluccius sp. Rafinesque 1810
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Sardinella sp.
Sardinella sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1847 herring
 Life -
Leiosphaeridia sp.
Leiosphaeridia sp. Eisenack 1958