Where: Sakhalinskaya, Russian Federation (47.7° N, 142.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 140.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ausinskaya Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From sandstone, at base of ~200 m thick unit, unconformably overlying Chekhovskaya Fm and conformably underlying Kurasiiskaya Fm. AGE: No justification of Middle Miocene age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, pebbly, tuffaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTORS: Amano, Khudik and Narita. REPOSITORY: JUE (Joetsu University of Education, Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan).

Primary reference: K. Amano and V.D. Khudik. 1996. An early Middle Miocene warm-water molluscan fauna in southwestern Sakhalin - Molluscs from the Ausinskaya Formation around Novoselovo. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 184:651-661 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61932: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.07.2006

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