Marine Bivalvia of Rateginskaya Suite in northwestern Kamchatka (Eocene to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (62.5° N, 165.0° E: paleocoordinates 66.0° N, 166.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rateginskaya Formation, Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)

• Corresponds to the Kovachin Horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified claystone

• Sandstones, claystones, conglomerates, siltstones. Thickness 680-870m.

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 50151: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.05.2005, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Patellida - Lottiidae
Acmaea (Acmaea) sp. Eschscholtz 1830 limpet
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Homalopoma sp. Carpenter 1864 snail
Margarites (Pupillaria) sp. n. sp. Dall 1909 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell
 Neotaenioglossa - Trichotropidae
"Crepidula pileum" = Spirocrypta pileum
"Crepidula pileum" = Spirocrypta pileum Gabb 1864 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense Durham 1937 wentletrap
 Neogastropoda -
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Optoturris sp. n. sp. turrid
Parasyrinx (Lirasyrinx) sp. n. sp. Finlay 1924 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Aforia sp. n. sp.
Aforia sp. n. sp. Dall 1889 aforia
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Trigonostoma (Trigonostoma) sp. n. sp. Blainville 1827 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla sp. n. sp.
Ancilla sp. n. sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Conomitra sp. n. sp. Conrad 1865 ribbed mitre
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Siphonalia supragranulata Nagao 1928 true whelk
Ancistrolepis rateginensis Titova 1993 true whelk
Beringius (Beringius) pressulus Titova 1986 true whelk
Plicifusus (Retifusus) sp. n. sp. Dall 1902 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus (Fusinus) "n. sp. 1" Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polinices (Euspira) ashiyaensis" = Euspira meisensis
"Polinices (Euspira) ashiyaensis" = Euspira meisensis Makiyama 1926 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia (Yoldia) caudata, "Megayoldia (Portlandella) nitida" = Yoldia nitida
"Megayoldia (Portlandella) nitida" = Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814 clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. gackhense Kristofovich and Ilyina 1963 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Acesta (Plicacesta) ignota" = Plicacesta
"Acesta (Plicacesta) ignota" = Plicacesta file clam