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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cossmannea (Eunerinea) pasquarei n. sp." = Eunerinea
"Cossmannea (Eunerinea) pasquarei n. sp." = Eunerinea snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop | |
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma cardiiforme file clam | |
Camptonectes richei scallop
Camptonectes cf. annulatus Sowerby 1826 scallop
Camptonectes cf. laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop | |
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster | |
Liostrea eduliformis oyster | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle |