Karabaglyar Formation
The Karabaglyar Formation is a geologic formation in Armenia and Azerbaijan. It preserves fossils dated to the Changhsingian age of the Permian period and the Induan age of the Triassic period, straddling the Permian-Triassic boundary.[1]
| Karabaglyar Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Changhsingian-Induan ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Claystone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 39.5°N 45.4°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 0.3°S 38.8°E |
| Region | Transcaucasia |
| Country | Armenia Azerbaijan |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Karabaglyar |
Karabaglyar Formation (Caucasus mountains) | |
Fossil content
The following fossils have been reported from the formation:[1][2]
- Ammonites
- Eumorphotis venetiana
- Meekophiceras dubium
- Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) medium
- Eumorphotis sp.
- Gyronites sp.
- Koninckites sp.
- Kymatites sp.
- Lytophiceras sp.
- Ophiceras sp.
- Bivalves
See also
References
- Karabaglyar Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Kotlyar et al., 1993
Bibliography
- Kotlyar, G. V.; Y. D. Zakharov; G. S. Koczyrkrevicz; G. S. Kropacheva; K. O. Rostovcev; I. O. Chedija; G. P. Vuks, and E. A. Guseva. 1983. Evolution of the latest Permian biota: Dzhulfian and Dorashamian regional stages in the USSR, 1–200. ..
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