Mitridat Mountain (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Kerch

Where: Ukraine (45.3° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 40.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chersonian Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• upper Sarmatian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75089: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Mastodon cf. longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris
"Mastodon cf. longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere
 Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Mithridatocetus sp. Goldin and Startsev 2017 whale
species 1