Where: Russian Federation (51.8° N, 143.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 141.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Daginskaya Formation (Dagi Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From upper and middle Daginskaya suite of the "Dagi" horizon, which lies between the "Uynin" (Early Miocene) and "Okobykay" (Late Miocene) horizons. THICKNESS: Total thickness of unit is 1300 m. AGE: Middle MIocene, on the basis of classification into the upper and middle "Dagi" horizons. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite checklist for "member" in this area.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty claystone and lithified, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown, presumably Pleshakov or Gedroyts (c. 1939). REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2003. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands. Science Reports, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba 24:45-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70460: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2007

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