Where: Russian Federation (44.4° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 38.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maikop Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Upper layers of the Maikop Series, dated as Middle-Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Bannikov; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. Garassino and M. Novati. 2001. Liocarcinus lancetidactylus (Smirnov, 1929) and Platymaia lethaeus (Smirnov, 1929) (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Lower Miocene of N Caucasus (Russia). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 141(2):269-281 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127282: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 08.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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