Marine Bivalvia of Getkilninskaya Suite in northwestern Kamchatka (Paleocene to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (62.5° N, 165.0° E: paleocoordinates 72.7° N, 160.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Getkilninskaya Formation, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• The Getkilninskaya Suite is concordently overlapped by the Kamchikskaya Suite and corresponds to the Getkilnin Horizon. Lower Thanetian through Upper Danian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified mudstone

• Alternation of sandstone and mudstone. Thickness 800-900m.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2004. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast. Science Reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Section B 25:9-45 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49981: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya penjica Awning Clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) cooperi Dickerson 1913 nut clam
Acila (Truncacila) decisa Conrad 1855 divaricate nutclam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) devjatilovae" = Saccella pointed nut clam
"Nuculana (Saccella) volobuevi" = Saccella pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii Conrad 1866 pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis Gabb 1869 pointed nut clam
Ledina fresnoensis Dickerson 1916 pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Costelloleda) powersi Dickerson 1914 pointed nut clam
? Hilgardia parkei Anderson and Hanna 1925 pointed nut clam
?H. parkei coosensis
Nuculana (Saccella) cowlitzensis Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Cuneocorbula) formosa Devjatilova and Volobueva 1981 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar cf. murphyi Zinsmeister 1983 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta (Zemysina) pacifica Zinsmeister 1983 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula merriami" = Mactromeris merriami
"Spisula merriami" = Mactromeris merriami Packard 1916 clam
S. merriami longifrons
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Nemocardium cf. linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium cf. linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha (Miltha) parsoni Waring 1917 clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella cf. grandis" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Camptochlamys cf. alaskensis" = Chlamys (Camptochlamys)
"Camptochlamys cf. alaskensis" = Chlamys (Camptochlamys) scallop