Where: Adygea, Russian Federation (44.5° N, 40.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 36.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: P18 nannofossil zone, Pshekha Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• "lower Oligocene, Rupelian, Pshekha horizon" "lower (Khadumian) substage of the Maikopian Series of North Caucasus" "lowermost Rupelian, 33.7–32.0 Ma"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Kovalchuk, E. Baykina, E., K. Stefaniak, and A. Nadachowsk. 2020. A systematic revision of herrings (Teleostei, Clupeidae, Clupeinae) from the Oligocene and early Miocene from the Eastern Paratethys and the Carpathian Basin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(2):e1778710 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226877: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.08.2022

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