Novoelizavetovka, bonebearing lens (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Novoelizavetovka-2, Novoyelizavetivka, Novo-Yelizavetovka

Where: Odessa, Ukraine (47.2° N, 30.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• "Upper Miocene (Lower Meotian, MN 12a)"

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

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified gravel

• "bonebearing lens in gravelits and marlous, sand-clayish deposits"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

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

•the material of Pseudopus novorossicus is reposited in the Natural History Museum of Odessa National University

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 167833: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 04.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae sp. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"several vertebrae"
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Macrovipera) sp. Reuss 1927 pit viper
"xanthina species group"
 Squamata - Boidae
Erycinae sp. Bonaparte 1825 sand boa
"several vertebrae"
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus novorossicus legless lizard
"numerous skull-bones"