Obukhovsky quarry (Pliocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Rostov, Russian Federation (47.5° N, 40.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 39.7° E)

When: MN 15 (4.2 - 3.2 Ma)

• "Middle Pliocene (Kimmerian, Late Ruscinian, MN 15)"

•According to the stratigraphic chart in the primary reference, the site is located in the Moldavski faunistic complex.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

• succession of "gravelits and sands with numerous interlayers of grayish clays"

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 168018: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 12.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

• The vertebral fragments of the vipers are said to be similar to those found in the Kotlovina ("lower layer") locality (MN 15; see PBDB coll. no. 50941) in the primary reference.
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Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"strongly damaged trunk vertebrae"
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Vipera) sp., Vipera (Pelias) sp.
Vipera (Vipera) sp. Laurenti 1768 pit viper
fragmentary trunk vertebrae
Vipera (Pelias) sp. Merrem 1820 pit viper
fragmentary trunk vertebrae
 Squamata - Boidae
? Eryx sp.
? Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa
"small trunk vertebrae of erycines presumably of the genus Eryx"
 Squamata - Lacertidae
? Lacerta sp.
? Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
"fragmentary cranial elements, dentaries and vertebrae of lacertids apparently of Lacerta s.l.""