Pontian and Maeotian deposits of the Kolkhidskaya Lowlands - Package 5/3: Messinian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Congeria flexuosa
Dreissena sp. Beneden 1835
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 42.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.3° North, 44.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:3
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: This 5th package belongs to the Pontian stage, is 35m thick and splitted into various parts. The fossils reported here belong to the third part, which is 28m above the bottom.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: sandy claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:45923
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-12-14 02:39:07 Last modified:2005-03-07 07:40:01
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-14 02:39:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12232.1% 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]