ammonites
Voskhod, Crimea, Ukraine (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Also known as Reef 2636

Where: Crimea, Ukraine (44.6° N, 33.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 50.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: boissieri zone, Berriasian (145.5 - 140.2 Ma)

• Informally termed Bioherm member

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• Small bioherms (3-5 m thick, 4 m wide) of hermatypic corals and algae. Maximum 6 m thick.

•Intermound areas filled with bioclastic grainstones and packstones with fragments of corals and others.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section

Primary reference: V. V. Arkadiev and I.Y.u. Bugrova. 1999. Facies of the Cretaceous (Berriasian) deposits from the River Belbek Area (Southwestern Crimea). Facies 40:71-80 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22962: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.07.2002