Gulf of Korfa, Eastern Kamchatka (I) (Oligocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (60.4° N, 165.9° E: paleocoordinates 62.8° N, 168.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aluginskaya Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Ilninskaya Series, Aluginskaya Suite, Layer I

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: Y.u. B. Gladenkov, G. M. Bratseva, L. I. Mitrofanova and V. N. Sinel'nikova. 1988. Raschleneniye oligotsen-nizhnemiotsenovykh tolshch vostochnoy Kamchatki (zaliv Korfa). Subdivision of Oligocene-lower Miocene layers of eastern Kamchatka, Gulf of Korfa. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya 1988(8):3-16 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45429: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Bivalvia
 Solenida - Solenidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Clinocardium sp. Keen 1936 cockle
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
"Yoldia ossoriensis" = Yoldia (Mirayoldia) ossoriensis Pronina 1973 clam
Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814 clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
"Yoldia watasei" = Megayoldia (Portlandella) watasei Kanehara 1937 clam
"Yoldia deformis" = Megayoldia (Portlandella) watasei Kanehara 1937 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila gettisburgensis divaricate nutclam
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
Taxodiaceae indet. Saporta 1865
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822
Sphagnum
  - Sphagnaceae
Sphagnum sp. Linnaeus 1753 peat moss
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae