Where: Russian Federation (59.8° N, 165.0° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° N, 167.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aluginskaya Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Corresponds to the Alugin Horizon in Koryak Upland and northern Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone

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 49974: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005

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