Where: Ukraine (45.5° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 42.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Argun Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Upper Tarkhanian local stage. Nannofossils assigned to zone NN5 and can be correlated to the Lower Badenian deposits of central Paratethys and Langhian sediments of the Mediterranean (Andreyeva-Grigorovich & Savytskaya, 2000).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected in 1985; reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: K. S. Perfilieva, D. A. Dubovikoff, and G. M. Dlussky. 2017. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Crimea. Paleontological Journal 51:391-401 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188087: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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