Kaskadnaya Suite - Kaskadnyi Spring, Okha District, Sakhalin (Miocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (54.2° N, 142.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 141.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kaskadnaya Formation (Nutov Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kaskadnaya suite of the "lower Nutov" horizon, which lies between the "Okobykay" (Late Miocene) and "upper Nutov" (Pliocene) horizons. THICKNESS: Total thickness of unit is 450 m. AGE: Late MIocene, on the basis of classification into the "Nutov" horizon. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite checklist for "formation" in this area.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, concretionary claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text; assumed to be cool-water coastal setting on the basis of faunal composition.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clays with clay-limestone concretions and interbeds of sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Pooly-lithified, assumed on the basis of age and facies.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown, presumably Lautenschläger or Slodkewitsch (c. 1938). REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2003. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands. Science Reports, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba 24:45-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70465: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Comprises fairly substantial list of characteristic bivalvia; no other groups listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but nomenclature revised by specialists, with species and subgenus-level identifications.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Crassoleda) crassatelloides" = Crassoleda crassatelloides Lautenschlager 1957 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Tindariidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma cf. golikovi" = Macoma (Macoma) golikovi
"Macoma cf. golikovi" = Macoma (Macoma) golikovi Scarlato and Kafanov 1988 tellin clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae