Where: Sakhalin, Russian Federation (47.8° N, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 139.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holmsk Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• first half of the early Miocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. V. Nazarkin and T. P. Malyshkina. 2012. The first reliable record of selachians from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin Island. Zoosystemica Rossica 21(1):180-184 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 138022: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Mammalia | |
Cetacea indet. whale | |
Actinopteri | |
Gasterosteidae indet. perch-like fish | |
Macrouridae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1898 grenadiers | |
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Alopias cf. superciliosus Lowe 1840 thresher shark |