Miocene Bryozoans: Kuban River, USSR (Miocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (43.3° N, 45.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 44.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Material collected bed by bed from the Chokrak deposits.

Environment/lithology: marine

• Modern members of this genus live in warm marine basins.
• Occurred in clayey argillites, fine- and coarse- grained sandstones, and in friable oolitic limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: chemical,

• Type specimens are housed in the Paleontological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (PIN collection no. 3938).

Primary reference: O.B. Veys. 1981. Morphology of Miocene Bryozoans, Genus Cellaria. Paleontological Journal 15(2):51-58 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43034: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 09.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Other previously known byrozoans not included in list.
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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria tenuata n. sp., Cellaria distincta n. sp., Cellaria belensis n. sp.