Tezheva Syncline (Upper Maastrichtian) (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (38.4° N, 57.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 51.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P.I. Kalugina in 1957

• Repository: Instituta Geologii Gosgeolkoma SSSR (Ashkhabad) = Institute of Geology of the State Geological Committee of the USSR (Askhabad)

Primary reference: G. N. Djabarov. 1964. Verkhnemelovye Morskiy Ezhi Tsentral'nogo Kopet-Daga i ikh Stratigraficheskoe Znachenie 1-114 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196569: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys arnaudi Seunes 1888 sea urchin
Echinocorys pyramidatus Portlock 1843 sea urchin
Echinocorys perconicus Hagenow 1840 sea urchin
Echinocorys elatus Arnaud 1903 sea urchin
Echinocorys ciplyensis Lambert 1903 sea urchin