ammonites
Marine Bivalvia of Enemtenskaya Suite in western Kamchatka (Pliocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (58.0° N, 158.0° E: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 158.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Enemtenskaya Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Stratotype of the Enemten Horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate and lithified, tuffaceous sandstone

• Conglomerates, coquina, tuffaceous sandstones, tuffs, tuffites. Thickness 30-350m.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Kafanov and K. Ogasawara. 2004. Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast. Science Reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Section B 25:9-45 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005