Gulf of Korfa, Eastern Kamchatka (II) (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 II

• 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 45430: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
Rhodopetoma sp. Bartsch 1944 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Colus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
Trominina angasiana Yokoyama 1932 true whelk
"Neptunea ezoana" = Trominina ezoana Takeda 1953 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Makiyamaia sp. MacNeil 1960 ribbed mitre
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila gettisburgensis divaricate nutclam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
"Yoldia watasei" = Megayoldia (Portlandella) watasei Kanehara 1937 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Solenida - Solenidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Clinocardium sp. Keen 1936 cockle
Papyridea matschigarica cockle
subsp. uspenica
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sorachiensis Otatsume 1933 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Callista pittsburgensis" = Macrocallista pittsburgensis Dall 1900 venus clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya cf. ugolnensis Devjatilova and Volobueva 1981 softshell clam
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