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
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Congeria flexuosa
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Dreissena sp.
Beneden 1835
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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] |