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The Age of the pre-Callovian Jurassic Sequence at the Southwest of Tatarstan (Central Russia, Tarkhanovskaya pristan’–Dolinovka reference section) and the Status of the Upper Bajocian “Garantiana-beds”, Previously Described from Here

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In the present paper we describe and discuss belemnite finds from the basal part of the middle Jurassic sequence at the southwest of the Republic of Tatarstan (Tetyushi district). The belemnites were collected from the outcrops located along a shoreline of the Kuybyshevskoye reservoir (Volga river) between the place Tarkhanovskaya pristan’ and the former village Dolinovka. These belemnites indicate that the basal part of the Jurassic sequence is Early Bathonian (Ishmae Zone) or, less probable, Middle Bathonian in age. Such dating triggers a critical review for the age of the middle Jurassic sequence in the region. In particular, poorly preserved ammonites previously collected from the same outcrops higher in the succession and interpreted as members of the Late Bajocian subfamily Garantianinae, are in fact Late Bathonian Gowericeratinae. Consequently, “Beds with Garantiana”—nominally the most ancient ammonite-based biostratigraphic unit within the whole Jurassic of European Russia, based on this assemblage,—is invalid.

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  1. Additional mentions of belemnites in the basal beds of the Jurassic in the studied area were provided by Zonov (1939) and Milanovsky (1940), notably, the latter author also mentioned “rolled ammonite fragments and reptile bones”. Besides, in the reference book “Geology of USSR” (Blom et al., 1967, p. 480) belemnite cavities from Dolinovka were identified as “Cylindroteuthis beaumonti Orb.”, and a list of bivalves, previously reported from the same strata (Blom, 1955), was repeated. None of these identifications was supported by figures or by descriptions.

  2. According to the recent system, should be redefined as Holcobeloides beaumontianus (d’Orbigny, 1842)—a species, characteristic for the middle Callovian to the lowermost Oxfordian interval.

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A.P.I. thanks the Director of the Undory Paleontological Museum, I.M. Stenshin for his king help in organizing the fieldwork in the Shchuch’i Gory area in 2018, and A.V. Guzhov (Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences) for sharing his knowledge on making silicone casts.

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This study was supported by the RFBR projects 16-05-1088 and 18-05-01070, and provided according to the Governmental Contract No. 0135-2018-0035 (Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences).

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Ippolitov, A.P., Gulyaev, D.B. The Age of the pre-Callovian Jurassic Sequence at the Southwest of Tatarstan (Central Russia, Tarkhanovskaya pristan’–Dolinovka reference section) and the Status of the Upper Bajocian “Garantiana-beds”, Previously Described from Here. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 27, 638–648 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593819060029

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