Cedisi Village: Chattian, Georgia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Kharthlidelphis diceros n. gen., n. sp.
Mchedlidze and Pilleri 1988
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2 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Georgia | State/province: | Caucasus | County: | Gori District |
| Coordinates: | 42.5° North, 43.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.8° North, 50.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: from the Upper Maikopian deposits; late Oligocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 12121 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-10-09 12:53:57 | Last modified: | 2011-09-09 13:35:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-10-09 12:53:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6018. | 5% 10080 | G. A. Mchedlidze and G. Pilleri. 1988. Kharthlidelphis diceros, a new genus and species from the Oligocene of Georgia (Caucasus, USSR). Investigations on Cetacea 21:9-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |