Where: Russian Federation (59.0° N, 163.9° E: paleocoordinates 59.1° N, 164.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Limimtevayamskaya Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Corresponds to the Limimtevayam Horizon in Koryak Upland and northeastern Kamchatka.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 50042: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 05.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
"Tridonta limimtensis" = Astarte (Tridonta)
"Tridonta limimtensis" = Astarte (Tridonta) clam | |
"Cyclocardia crebricostata" = Crassicardia crebricostata, Crassicardia crassidens, Cyclocardia magica, Cyclocardia veniaminovi
"Cyclocardia crebricostata" = Crassicardia crebricostata Krause 1885 clam
Crassicardia crassidens Broderip and Sowerby 1829 clam
Cyclocardia magica clam | |
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Mactromeris polynyma Stimpson 1860 clam | |
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Liocyma fluctuosa Gould 1841 venus clam
Callithaca adamsi Reeve 1863 venus clam | |
"Megangulus luteus" = Tellina (Megangulus), Macoma karaginskiensis, "Macoma cf. calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea, "Macoma golikovi" = Macoma (Macoma) golikovi, Macoma cf. crassula, "Macoma lama" = Macoma (Macoma) lama, Macoma brota
"Megangulus luteus" = Tellina (Megangulus) tellin clam
Macoma karaginskiensis tellin clam
"Macoma cf. calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
"Macoma golikovi" = Macoma (Macoma) golikovi Scarlato and Kafanov 1988 tellin clam
Macoma cf. crassula Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
"Macoma lama" = Macoma (Macoma) lama Bartsch 1929 tellin clam
Macoma brota Dall 1916 tellin clam | |
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Ciliatocardium cf. uyemurai cockle | |
"Mya (Mya) uzenensis" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria, Mya (Mya) cuneiformis, Mya (Mya) truncata, Mya (Arenomya) cf. profundior
"Mya (Mya) uzenensis" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria Schlesch 1931 softshell clam
Mya (Mya) cuneiformis Bohm 1915 softshell clam
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Arenomya) cf. profundior Grant and Gale 1931 softshell clam | |
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Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
Panomya chrysis clam | |
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Siliqua alta Broderip and Sowerby I 1829 clam
Siliqua cf. alta Broderip and Sowerby I 1829 clam | |
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Thracia (Cetothrax) cf. condoni Dall 1909 clam | |
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Conchocele bisecta Conrad 1849 clam | |
Chlamys (Chlamys) karaginskiensis, Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis, Fortipecten kenyoshiensis, Fortipecten hallae
Chlamys (Chlamys) karaginskiensis Sinelnikova 1975 scallop
Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis Yokoyama 1911 scallop
Fortipecten kenyoshiensis scallop
Fortipecten hallae Dall 1921 scallop | |
Modiolus (Modiolus) modiolus, "Mytilus (Mytilus) ex gr. edulis" = Mytilus edulis
Modiolus (Modiolus) modiolus Linnaeus 1758 mussel
"Mytilus (Mytilus) ex gr. edulis" = Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
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Musculus niger Gray 1824 mussel | |
"Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula" = Nuculana pernula
"Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula" = Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam | |
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Megayoldia (Megayoldia) thraciaeformis Storer 1838 clam | |
Yoldia (Yoldia) epilongissima, Yoldia (Yoldia) limimtensis, Yoldia (Yoldia) hyperborea, Yoldia (Cnesterium) notabilis, "Yoldia (Cnesterium) kuluntunensis" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica
Yoldia (Yoldia) hyperborea Gould 1841 clam
Yoldia (Cnesterium) notabilis Yokoyama 1922 clam
"Yoldia (Cnesterium) kuluntunensis" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica Valenciennes 1846 clam | |
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Leionucula tenuis nut clam
Acila (Truncacila) marujamensis divaricate nutclam | |