Petroverovka (Miocene of Ukraine)

Where: Odessa, Ukraine (46.6° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 33.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• Meotian

•"material herein presented originates from deposits of the Lower Maeotian, a regional stage also referred to as Meotian (see Palcu et al. 2019, 36), which correlates to the early-middle Turolian (MN 11–MN 12) of the European continental biochronologic scheme (Fig. 1C)."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 75795: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.10.2007, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Procervus variabilis" = Cervavitus
"Procervus variabilis" = Cervavitus deer
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus pannonicus Kormos 1911 legless lizard
one trunk vertebra (ZIN PH 7/281); four caudal vertebrae (ZIN PH 8/281, 9/281, 10/281, 11/281); and 49 osteoderms (ZIN PH 1-6/281; 12-54/281)