Pontian and Maeotian deposits of the Kolkhidskaya Lowlands - Package 5/6 (Miocene of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (42.3° N, 42.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 44.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• This 5th package belongs to the Pontian stage, is 35m thick and splitted into various parts. The fossils reported here belong to the sixth part, which is approx. in the middle of the package.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and sandy claystone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45928: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candona neglecta Sars 1887 ostracod