Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 48.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: a3; 6 & 7 Member, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; brown claystone and marl
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 116625: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Actinopteri | |
Priacanthus artus Danil'chenko 1980 | |
Sardinella sp. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1847 herring | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822 | |
Sequoia sp. Endlicher 1847 coast redwood
Taxodium sp. Richard 1810 cypress
Glyptostrobus sp. Endlicher 1847 Chinese swamp cypress | |
Pinopsida | |
Taxodiaceae indet. Saporta 1865 | |
Angiospermae | |
Chenopodiaceae indet. Ventenant 1799 | |
Juglandaceae indet. Perleb 1818
Carya sp. Nuttall 1818 hickory | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ephedra sp. Linnaeus 1753 jointfir | |
Merluccius errans | |
"Merluccius errans" = Spinogadus errans
"Merluccius errans" = Spinogadus errans Smirnov 1935 | |
Dinophyceae | |
cf. Systematophora sp. Klement 1960
Impagidinium sp. Stover and Evitt 1978
Pterodinium sp. Eisenack 1958 | |
Cleistosphaeridium sp. Davey 1966
Reticulatosphaera sp. Matsuoka 1983 | |
Spiniferites sp. Mantell 1850
Caligodinium sp. Drugg 1970 | |
Stoveracysta sp. Clowes 1985 | |
Deflandrea sp. Eisenack 1938 | |
cf. Apteodinium sp. Eisenack 1958 |