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 second part, which is 30m 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 45922: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.12.2004

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