Where: Georgia (42.3° N, 42.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 44.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• This 5th package belongs to the Pontian stage, is 35m thick and splitted into various parts. The fossils reported here belong to the first part, which is 33m above the bottom.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and sandy 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 45921: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Congeria flexuosa clam
Dreissena sp. Beneden 1835 clam |