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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Ostracoda | |
Leptocythere petesa ostracod | |
Candona suzini ostracod
Candona neglecta Sars 1887 ostracod |