River Belaia: Sarmatian, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetotherium mayeri
Brandt 1871
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Spasski 1951 | ||||||
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Cetotherium maicopicum n. sp.
Spasski 1951
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Spasski 1951 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Russian Federation |
| Coordinates: | 44.6° North, 40.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 39.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Sarmatian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.8 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Lake deposit, mergel, near bank of the River Belaya. late Sarmatian |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | deformed bedding,hardground,shelly/skeletal,yellow poorly lithified conglomeratic lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: JA: none entered by Koretsky | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Department of Gerpetology, Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. # 236/0 | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Lacerta s. str. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | River Belaia, city Maikop, Russia; Middle Sarmatian lake deposit. | ||
| Database number: | 34741 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | I. Koretsky, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 13920 | ||
| Created: | 2003-09-18 11:27:36 | Last modified: | 2007-06-11 08:19:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-18 11:27:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9222. | I.S. Darevsky. 1990. Yashcheritsy roda Lacerta iz srednesarmatskikh ozernykh otlozheniy Severnogo Kavkaza Title translated: Lizards of the genus Lacerta from the middle Sarmatian lacustrine deposits of the Northern Caucasus. Borkin, Lev Ya. , editor, Reptilii gornykh i aridnykh territoriy; Sistematika i rasprostraneniye, St. Petersburg : Nauka, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 207:139-142 [J. Alroy/I. Koretsky/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 12757 | G. A. Mchedlidze. 1964. Fossil Cetacea of the Caucasus 1-145 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 29032 | P. I. Spasski. 1951. Ostaki tsetoheriev iz Servernogo Kavkaza (okr. g. Maikopa) [Remains of cetotheria from the Northern Caucasus in the neighborhood of Maikop Town. Izvestia Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR 2:57-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 28993 | P. I. Spasski. 1951. Ostaki iskopaemykh kitoobraznykh iz sarmatskikh otlozhenii okrestnostei Derbent. Trudy estestvenno-istoricheskogo muzia 8:188-226 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |