ammonites
Marine Bivalvia of Snatol'skaya Suite in western Kamchatka (Eocene to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (57.8° N, 158.6° E: paleocoordinates 62.3° N, 159.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Snatol'skaya Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• The Snatol'skaya Suite corresponds to the Snatol Horizon, which is confidently assigned to the Middle Eocene (Lutetian-Bartonian).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified claystone

• Alternation beds of sandstones and claystones, interbeds of siltstones and claystones, conglomerates and coal lenses. Thickness up to 1000m.

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 50051: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 05.05.2005