Beloskelevatoye (Eocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Beloskelevatoe

Where: Luhansk, Ukraine (48.5° N, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 34.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kiev Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• upper part of Kiev horizon of Donetsk folded structure, as identified in in Stratigraphic schemes (1993), which is identified as the late Bartonian (see also Ryabokon’, 2002)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray, green siltstone

• non-calcareous glauconitic greenish-gray siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. A. Zvonok. 2012. On the problematic Eocene cetacean from Nagornoye site (Kirovograd prov., Ukraine) and the significance of archaeocetes for stratigraphic research. Geolog Ukrainy 1-2:87-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 132393: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Pachycetus paulsoni1, "Basilotritus uheni n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycetus paulsonii2
"Basilotritus uheni n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycetus paulsonii2 Brandt 1873 whale