Krivoy Rog, YuGOK quarry: MN 11, Ukraine
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Colubridae indet.
Oppel 1811
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1 element | |||||||||
| "trunk vertebra of a middle-sized colubrid" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Vipera (Vipera) sp.
Laurenti 1768
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1 element | |||||||||
| a single trunk vertebra | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Pseudopus sp.
Merrem 1820
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1 element | |||||||||
| fragmentary dentary | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ukraine | State/province: | Dnipropetrovsk | County: | Inhulets' |
| Coordinates: | 47.8° North, 33.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.2° North, 32.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | MN 11 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 8.7 - 7.75 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Miocene (Upper Sarmatian, MN 11a)"
According to the stratigraphic chart of Zerova (2003), the site is located in the Berislavsky faunistic subcomplex of the Berislavsky faunistic complex. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported | ||
| Lithology description: shallow marine sediments with lenticular bone-bearing deposit forming the thin cover rocks of the banded iron formations within the precambrian basement (Ukrainian shield) which are the target of the mining operations in the Krivoy Rog area | |||
| Environment: | coastal indet. | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kryvyi Rih | ||
| Database number: | 167941 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-04-09 13:39:16 | Last modified: | 2015-04-09 13:39:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-04-09 13:39:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54848. | G. A. Zerova. 1993. Late Cainozoic localities of snakes and lizards of Ukraine. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume spéciale 7:273-280 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht] |