Also known as Azov Region

Where: Rostovskaya Oblast', Russian Federation (47.2° N, 38.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 38.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 12 zone, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• Greenish clay member. Middle Turolian (late MN 12–early MN 13)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; green claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Material collected since 1932. Material held in the Geological Institute (GIN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and Rostov State University (RSU), Rostov-on-Don.

Primary reference: N. V. Zelenkov and A. V. Panteleyev. 2015. Three bird taxa (Aves: Anatidae, Phasianidae, Scolopacidae) from the Late Miocene of the Sea of Azov (Southwestern Russia). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:515-527 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174455: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.11.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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