Where: Russian Federation (58.8° N, 163.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 60.7° N, 161.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mysa Ploskogo Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• Regularly bedding on the Pestrotsvetnaya Suite, regularly overlapped by the Yun'yun'vayamskaya Suite. Comparison with the Kakert and Etolona Horizons of western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2004. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast. Science Reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Section B 25:9-45 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50048: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 05.05.2005

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