Gulf of Korfa, Eastern Kamchatka (III) (Oligocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (60.4° N, 165.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.1° N, 168.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Okhonchevayamskaya Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Okhonchevayamskaya Suite (lower part of the Pakhachinskaya Suite), Layer III

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: Y.u. B. Gladenkov, G. M. Bratseva, L. I. Mitrofanova and V. N. Sinel'nikova. 1988. Raschleneniye oligotsen-nizhnemiotsenovykh tolshch vostochnoy Kamchatki (zaliv Korfa). Subdivision of Oligocene-lower Miocene layers of eastern Kamchatka, Gulf of Korfa. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya 1988(8):3-16 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45431: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cyclocardia akagii Kanehara 1937 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Papyridea matschigarica cockle
subsp. uspenica
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sorachiensis Otatsume 1933 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Tsuga sp. Carrière 1855
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglans sp. Linnaeus 1753 walnut
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Betula sp. Linnaeus 1753 birch
Alnus sp. Miller 1754 alder
 Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica sp. Linnaeus 1753 bayberry
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
Ericaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 heather