Marine Bivalvia of Napanskaya Suite in western Kamchatka (Paleocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (57.8° N, 158.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Napanskaya Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Corresponds to the Uleveney Horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone

• Claystone, siltstones, sandstones, lenses of gravelstones and conglomerates, coal beds. Thickness up to 2000m.

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 50137: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.05.2005

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