Where: Russian Federation (54.5° N, 161.4° E: paleocoordinates 55.1° N, 162.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Goryachikh Klyuchey Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Transgressively occuring at the Kronotskaya Suite. Enters into the Upper Kornilov sub-horizon and is corresponding to the Ilyin Horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone and lithified conglomerate

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 50120: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.05.2005

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