Where: Russian Federation (58.5° N, 159.2° E: paleocoordinates 58.8° N, 160.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ermanovskaya Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Stratotype of the Ermanov Horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2004. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast. Science Reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Section B 25:9-45 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49977: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005

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