Antipovka (Pliocene of Russian Federation)

Also known as Chugunovka

Where: Russian Federation (50.7° N, 40.0° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 39.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Middle Pliocene

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, pebbly sandstone

• on the floor, there are chalks of the Cenomaninan, they are overlain by sand beds, 5 m to 20 m thick. The lower part of them contains gravel and coarse sand, in the upper they are interbedded by middle- and fine-grained sands with crossbedding typical of river sediments.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Agadjanian and K. Kowalski. 1978. Prosomys insuliferus (Kowalski 1958) (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Poland and the European part of the USSR. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31(3):29-53 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34110: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 18.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Epimeriones sp. Daxner-Höck 1972 gerbil
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allocricetus sp. Schaub 1930 mouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Pliopetaurista sp. Kretzoi 1962 squirrel
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole
Desmana sp. Guldenstaedt 1777 Russian desman
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"freshwater gastropods"