Also known as Kerch
Where: Ukraine (45.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 36.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• a series of beds totalling approximately 16 m within "Karangatian marine deposits, 20-25 m thick"
•assigned to the last interglacial on the basis of a U/Th date of 107 +/- 7.7 ka for cycle (= layer) II
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. E. Dodonov, A. L. Tchepalyga, C. D. Mihailescu, L. P. Zhou, A. K. Markova, V. M. Trubikhin, A. N. Simakova and E. G. Konikov. 2000. Last-interglacial records from central Asia to the northern Black Sea shoreline: stratigraphy and correlation. Geologie en Mijnbouw / Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79(2/3):303-311 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68299: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Paphia senescens venus clam | |
Mactra corallina clam |