Marine Bivalvia of Amaninskaya Suite in western Kamchatka (Oligocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (58.0° N, 158.2° E: paleocoordinates 60.2° N, 160.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Amaninskaya Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• The Amaninskaya Suite is correlative to the Amanin-Gakkh Horizon.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone and tuff

• Claystones, tuffs, sandstones, siltstone. Thickness 200-300m.

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 49975: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
"Corbicula cf. gabbiana" = Polymesoda gabbiana
"Corbicula cf. gabbiana" = Polymesoda gabbiana Henderson 1920 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Solenida - Solenidae
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Conchocele bisecta Conrad 1849 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
"Monia schmidti" = Pododesmus (Monia)
"Monia schmidti" = Pododesmus (Monia) scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus restorationensis Van Winkle 1918 mussel
Modiolus wajampolkensis Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
Modiolus solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
Modiolus cf. solea Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
Modiolus trigonalis Slodkewitsch 1936 mussel
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) snatolensis" = Saccella pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
"Megayoldia (Portlandella) nitida" = Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814 clam
"Megayoldia (Portlandella) cf. nitida" = Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814 clam
Yoldia (Sachalinella) vasiljevskii Slodkewitsch 1938 clam
"Yoldia (Nampiella) cf. laudabilis" = Yoldia (Nampiella) laudabilis Yokoyama 1924 clam
"Yoldia elliptica" = Yoldia (Nampiella) laudabilis Yokoyama 1924 clam