Metekhi (Oligocene of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (41.9° N, 44.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 50.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• late Oligocene: "Maikopian"

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, gray claystone

• brownish-gray clays

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Mchedlidze. 2008. The short preliminary information on the Metekhi vertebrate site (Late Oligocene). Problems of Paleobiology 3:129-133 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 129118: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
turtles
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale
"dolphins"
Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Thunnidae
Thunnidae indet. Starks 1910
"Thunnuses"