Krivoy Rog, YuGOK quarry (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Kryvyi Rih

Where: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (47.8° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 32.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 11 (8.7 - 7.8 Ma)

• "Upper Miocene (Upper Sarmatian, MN 11a)"

•According to the stratigraphic chart of Zerova (2003), the site is located in the Berislavsky faunistic subcomplex of the Berislavsky faunistic complex.

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• shallow marine sediments with lenticular bone-bearing deposit forming the thin cover rocks of the banded iron formations within the precambrian basement (Ukrainian shield) which are the target of the mining operations in the Krivoy Rog area

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Zerova. 1993. Late Cainozoic localities of snakes and lizards of Ukraine. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume spéciale 7:273-280 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167941: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 09.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp.
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard
fragmentary dentary
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Vipera) sp.
Vipera (Vipera) sp. Laurenti 1768 pit viper
a single trunk vertebra
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"trunk vertebra of a middle-sized colubrid"