Holmsk (Oligocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Sakhalin, Russian Federation (47.8° N, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 139.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• late Oligocene

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous claystone

• clayish, tuffaceous and siliceous clayish, tuffaceous and siliceous aleurolite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. V. Nazarkin. 2016. Cenozoic fossil fishes of the extinct alepisauroid family Polymerichthyidae from the Sakhalin Island, Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4):829-829 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204545: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Polymerichthyidae
Polymerichthys sp. Uyeno 1967