T.N. BOGDANOVA (VSEGEI)

Early Cretaceous Astartoidea and Crassatelloidea (Bivalvia) of Central Asia
Early Cretaceous Astartoidea of Mangyschlak, West and South Turkmenistan

Ten species of four genera of the Astartidae Family – Astarte, Eriphyla, Disparilia and Opis from Lower Cretaceous in western part of Central Asia: Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak) and Turkmenistan (Tuarkyr, Kubadag, Bolshoi and Maly Balkhans and Kopetdag) are described.
Keywords: Astartoidea, Lower Cretaceous, Mangyshlak, Tuarkyr, Kubadag, Bolshoi and Maly Balkhans, Kopetdag.