Sample 61 AP-178/6, Karkar (type section), central Badakhshan (Jurassic of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (37.5° N, 71.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 78.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Karkar Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• level 5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous limestone and lithified, green, white, sandy claystone

• grey-brown marly limestone, sometimes laminated, with coquina of small lamellibranchs, and also greenish-white laminated sandy clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G. Pasquaré in 1961

Primary reference: C. R. Ronchetti. 1970. New contributions to the knowledge of the Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Northeast Afghanistan). Ital. Expedit., Karakorum (K2) Hindu Kush, Scientific Reports IV, Paleontology – Zoology – Botany 2:43-74 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76927: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
"Cossmannea (Eunerinea) pasquarei n. sp." = Eunerinea
"Cossmannea (Eunerinea) pasquarei n. sp." = Eunerinea snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes cf. annulatus Sowerby 1826 scallop
Camptonectes cf. laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle