Where: Russian Federation (62.5° N, 167.0° E: paleocoordinates 66.8° N, 168.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Niklekuyul'skaya Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• Corresponds to the Gailkhavilan and Kilakirnun Horizons in Koryak Upland and northeastern Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified claystone

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 50138: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.05.2005

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