PBDB Collection

Solnechnodolsk (Miocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation (45.3° N, 41.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 41.1° E)

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When: MN 13 mammal zone, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• The data obtained from small mammals indicates the correlation of the Solnechnodolsk fauna with the late Turolian [= Messinian], MN 13 of the European Neogene Mammal biochronological system.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• The vertebrate fossils occurred as disassociated bones coming from fluviatile and lacustrine beds incised in the Middle Sarmatian (Bessarabian) limestones

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Čerňanský, E. V. Syromyatnikova, and D. Jablonski. 2018. The first record of amphisbaenian and anguimorph lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the upper Miocene Solnechnodolsk locality in Russia. Historical Biology [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 199746: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 12.02.2019, edited by Gemma Benevento and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Heremites cf. vittatus² Heremites cf. vittatus² Left maxilla GIN 1145/245, four right dentaries GIN 1145/246-249.
Reptilia
Squamata - Anguidae	Anguinae indet., Anguis cf. rarus, Pseudopus pannonicus³, Ophisaurus sp., Ophisaurus cf. spinari Anguinae indet. Gray 1825 squamates GIN 1145/266 and 1145/269, two isolated osteoderms Anguis cf. rarus Klembara and Rummel 2018 slow worm GIN 1145/262, parietal Pseudopus pannonicus³ Kormos 1911 legless lizard Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard GIN 1145/264, left dentary; GIN 1145/265, vertebra Ophisaurus cf. spinari Klembara 1979 glass lizard GIN 1145/263, parietal
Squamata - Varanidae	Varanus sp. Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard GIN 1145/267, one sacral vertebra; GIN 1145/268, one caudal vertebra
Squamata - Lacertidae	Lacerta cf. trilineata¹ Lacerta cf. trilineata¹ squamates One premaxilla GIN 1145/270, six right maxillae 1145/271-276, five right frontals 1145/277-281, one left frontal 1145/282, four parietals 1145/283-285, 304, one left prefrontal 1145/286, two right jugals 1145/287-288, one left jugal 1145/289, two right postfrontals 1145/290-291, one right quadrate 1145/292, one right pterygoid 1145/293, two left dentaries 1145/294-295, four right dentaries 1145/296-299.
Squamata - Elapidae	Naja romani⁴ Naja romani⁴ Hoffstetter 1939 cobra One precloacal vertebra GIN 1145/305
Squamata -	Amphisbaenia indet. Amphisbaenia indet. Gray 1844 worm lizard GIN 1145/260 and 1145/261, two isolated dorsal vertebrae
Amphibia
Salientia - Pelobatidae	Pelobates sp., Pelobates aff. praefuscus³ Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad (mentioned by the authors, no specimen no.) Pelobates aff. praefuscus³ spadefoot toad

¹Čerňanský and Syromyatnikova 2019; ²Čerňanský and Syromyatnikova 2019; ³Codrea et al. 2022; ⁴Syromyatnikova et al. 2021