Tomari (Miocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Sakhalin, Russian Federation (47.8° N, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 139.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holmsk Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• first half of the early Miocene

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. V. Nazarkin and T. P. Malyshkina. 2012. The first reliable record of selachians from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin Island. Zoosystemica Rossica 21(1):180-184 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138022: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring
 Stomiatiformes - Stomiidae
 Aulopiformes -
 Perciformes - Gasterosteidae
Gasterosteidae indet. perch-like fish
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Macrouridae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1898 grenadiers
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias cf. superciliosus Lowe 1840 thresher shark
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam