Where: Russian Federation (60.4° N, 165.9° E: paleocoordinates 61.1° N, 167.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Uspenskaya Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Uspenskaya Suite (upper part of the Pakhachinskaya Suite), Layer IX

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone

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 45445: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 23.10.2004

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