ammonites
Marine Bivalvia of Kakertskaya Suite in western Kamchatka (Miocene to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (62.5° N, 165.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.2° N, 166.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kakertskaya Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Stratotype of the Kakert horizon in western Kamchatka.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified claystone

• Tripoli-shaped sandstones, claystones, tuffs, tuffites, glauconitic sandstones. Thickness 250-700m.

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 50038: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 05.05.2005