Novoelizavetovka, lower layer (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Novoyelizavetivka, Novo-Yelizavetovka

Where: Odessa, Ukraine (47.2° N, 30.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 29.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 11 (8.7 - 7.8 Ma)

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

•According to the stratigraphic chart in the primary reference, the site is located in the Grebenikovski faunistic subcomplex of the Berislyvsky faunistic complex .

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified gravel

• "alluvial deposits (gravelits)"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: IZAN = Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev

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 167806: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 03.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguis sp., Pseudopus sp.
Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758 slow worm
fragmentary trunk and caudal vertebrae
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard
fragmentary trunk and caudal vertebrae
 Squamata - Boidae
? Eryx sp.
? Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa
2 small trunk vertebrae
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Pelias) sp.
Vipera (Pelias) sp. Merrem 1820 pit viper
several fragmentary vertebrae
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
trunk and caudal vertebrae, apparently belonging to more than one colubrid species