Some data on the Lower Jurassic deposits of the Crimea

Abstract

A. A. Borisyak invited me to process the Liassic fauna collected by him and his colleagues from the outskirts of the city of Yalta and the village of Bodrak in the Crimea. In the vicinity of the city of Yalta, this fauna was noticed in the fence of one of the estates. A thorough search eventually led to a small abandoned quarry, where a block of limestone containing the named fauna was found among the shale.It was not possible to establish the mutual relationship of limestone and shale on the spot. Studies have provided undoubted paleontological evidence that part of the Crimean shale strata belongs to the Liassic, and the most abundant Liassic fauna was provided by the village of Bodrak and the environs of the city of Yalta.