Where: Sakhalinskaya, Russian Federation (47.7° N, 142.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.5° N, 138.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ausinskaya Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From sandstone, near top of ~200 m thick unit, unconformably overlying Chekhovskaya Fm and conformably underlying Kurasiiskaya Fm. AGE: No justification of Middle Miocene age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, medium-grained, concretionary, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTORS: Amano, Khudik and Narita. REPOSITORY: JUE (Joetsu University of Education, Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan).

Primary reference: K. Amano and V.D. Khudik. 1996. An early Middle Miocene warm-water molluscan fauna in southwestern Sakhalin - Molluscs from the Ausinskaya Formation around Novoselovo. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 184:651-661 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61933: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.07.2006

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