Where: Russian Federation (54.2° N, 142.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 141.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Matitukskaya Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Matitukskaya suite of the "Upper Nutov" horizon, which lies above the "lower Nutov" (Late Miocene) and below the " Pomyr" horizons. THICKNESS: Total thickness of unit is 950-1000 m. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of classification into the "Upper Nutov" horizon. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite checklist for the "formation" in this area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, concretionary, argillaceous, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown, presumably Khomeno (c. 1938). 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 70520: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.03.2007

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