ammonites
Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452) (Jurassic to of Kazakstan)

Where: Chimkent, Kazakstan (42.3° N, 69.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 73.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karabastau Formation, Callovian to Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; siltstone

• some specimens come from "hard grey layer" others from "paper shale of dark-reddish color"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. Martynov in 1924; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. V. Martynov. 1925. To the knowledge of fossil insects from Jurassic beds in Turkestan. 1. Raphidioptera. Izvestiya Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk 19(6-8):233-246 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/J. Karr] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115717: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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