Also known as Liventsovka, Khapry Formation, Sea of Azov Liventzovka

Where: Rostovskaya Oblast', Russian Federation (47.2° N, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 39.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Late Pliocene, Middle Villafranchian, lower part of MN17 (based on small mammals associated with macrofauna in the lowest levels).

•Bones largely found in the lower part of the alluvial sequence, but some isolated specimens occur higher in the sequence at Liventsovka. Several beds with small mammals occur within the 20m thick sequence.

•Liventsovka was a quarry.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Collecting began in 1932, from a quarry.

•Specimens held at Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don (RGU), Vernadskii State Geological Museum (GGM), Rostov Regional Museum (RRM) and the Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN).

•bpnes are 'strongly mineralised'.

Primary reference: V. S. Baigusheva. 1971. Fossil Teriofauna of the Liventzovka sand-pit. Materialy po faunam Antropogena SSSR 49:5-29 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39409: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 28.05.2004, edited by John Alroy

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