PBDB Collection

Kvabebi (Pliocene of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (41.4° N, 46.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 47.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Pliocene. Marine sediments equivalent to the continental Mesoaktshagylien age.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Marine sediments.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Gabounia. 1974. A propos du Villafranchian du Caucase. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 78(1):145-148 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40392: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.06.2004, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Parastrepsiceros sokolovi, Ioribos aceros, Eurocyon sp.¹, Chasmaportetes lunensis¹ Parastrepsiceros sokolovi Ioribos aceros Eurocyon sp.¹ Chasmaportetes lunensis¹
Mammalia
Carnivora - Canidae	Canis sp., Nyctereutes megamastoides Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine Nyctereutes megamastoides Pomel 1842 raccoon dog
Carnivora - Ursidae	"Ursus minimus" = Euarctos minimus¹, Ursus arvernensis "Ursus minimus" = Euarctos minimus¹ Devéze and Bouillet 1827 bear Ursus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 bear
Carnivora - Felidae	"Felis (Lynx) issiodorensis" = Lynx issiodorensis, Puma pardoides¹, Dinofelis sp.², Dinofelis abeli¹, Machairodus davitasvilii, Homotherium davitashvili¹ "Felis (Lynx) issiodorensis" = Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx Puma pardoides¹ cougar Dinofelis sp.² Zdansky 1924 cat Dinofelis abeli¹ Zdansky 1924 cat Machairodus davitasvilii cat Homotherium davitashvili¹ cat
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Propotamochoerus provincialis Propotamochoerus provincialis pig
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Eosyncerus ivericus¹, Oryx sp., Oryx (Aegoryx) sp.¹, Gazella postmitilinii, Protoryx heinrichi Eosyncerus ivericus¹ antelope Oryx sp. de Blainville 1816 oryx Oryx (Aegoryx) sp.¹ de Blainville 1816 oryx Gazella postmitilinii gazelle Protoryx heinrichi antelope
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Procapreolus sp., Eucladoceros sp., Pseudalces sp. Procapreolus sp. Schlosser 1929 deer Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer Pseudalces sp. Flerov 1962 deer
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Hipparion crusafonti, Hipparion rocinantis¹ Hipparion crusafonti hipparionine horse Hipparion rocinantis¹ Hernández Pacheco 1921 hipparionine horse
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Stephanorhinus megarhinus¹, "Dicerorhinus megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus Stephanorhinus megarhinus¹ rhinoceros "Dicerorhinus megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus de Christol 1835 rhinoceros
Rodentia - Hystricidae	Hystrix cf. primigenia Hystrix cf. primigenia Wagner 1848 porcupine
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Anancus arvernensis Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere
Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae	Kvabebihyrax kachethicus Kvabebihyrax kachethicus hyrax

¹Agusti et al. 2009; ²McKenna and Bell 1997