Orekhovka (Neogene of Ukraine)

Also known as Orikhivka

Where: Odessa, Ukraine (45.8° N, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 28.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 13 (7.2 - 4.9 Ma)

• "Upper Miocene (Upper Meotian, MN 13)"

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

Environment/lithology: deltaic; unlithified sandstone

• "submarine-delta deposits laying under the pontian sands in freshwater or salinewater deposits"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 167998: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 10.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Vipera) cf. meotica Zerova 1992 pit viper
several trunk vertebrae