Where: Russian Federation (60.2° N, 165.5° E: paleocoordinates 61.1° N, 167.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yaponskikh Kamney Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Corresponds to the upper part of Pakhachin Horizon in Koryak Upland and northeastern Kamchatka. Synonym: Uspenskaya Suite. Some earlier authors date the Uspenskaya Suite as middle miocene.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 50179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.05.2005

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