ammonites

Khidzorut: Late/Upper Turonian, Armenia
collected by A. A. Atabekyan 1986

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Armenia State/province:Vayots Dzor County:Azizbek
Coordinates: 39.6° North, 45.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.2° North, 42.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian Ammonoid zone: Subprionocyclus neptuni
Age range of interval:93.5 - 89.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The pterosaur bone cooccurred with the ammonite Reesidites minimus, a characteristic species of the Subprionocyclus neptuni Zone, the upper zone of the Upper Turonian in the West European scale. Unnamed stratigraphic unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. A. Atabekyan Collection dates:1986
Metadata
Database number:92185
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-03 04:36:40 Last modified:2009-11-11 07:43:44
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-03 04:36:40
Reference information
Primary reference:
31046 A. O. Averianov and A. A. Atabekyan. 2005. The first discovery of a flying reptile (Pterosauria) in Armenia. Paleontological Journal 39:210-212 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

23827ETE A. O. Averianov. 2007. New records of azhdarchids (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia. Paleontological Journal 41(2):189-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30958 N. N. Bakhurina and D. M. Unwin. 1995. a survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology 10:197-245 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
31047 L. A. Nessov. 1990. Flying reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the USSR and the significance of their remains for the reconstruction of paleogeographic conditions. Bulletin of Leningrad University, Series 7, Geology and Geography 4(28):3-10 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]