Pontian and Maeotian deposits of the Kolkhidskaya Lowlands - Package 7 (Miocene of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (42.3° N, 42.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 45.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• This 7th package belongs to the Maeotian stage.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: F. K. Shengeliya. 1974. Nekotoryye novyye dannyye o ponte Kolkhidy. Some new data on the Pontian in Colchis. Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR 73(2):397-400 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45926: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Semelidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae