Derbent: Serravallian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Plesiocetopsis sp. (Brandt 1873)
Spasski 1951
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Eucetotherium sp. (Brandt 1873)
Spasski 1951
Cetotherium maicopicum Spasski 1951
Pilleri 1986 1 specimen
recombined as Kurdalagonus maicopicus
Cetotherium aff. mayeri Brandt 1871
Spasski 1951
invalid subgroup of Mithridatocetus
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Cetotheriophanes sp. (Brandt 1873)
Spasski 1951
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Dagestan
Coordinates: 42.1° North, 48.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.6° North, 47.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Maikop
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Probably reported, but in Russian
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:49685
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-23 11:42:46 Last modified:2018-12-21 16:28:21
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-23 11:42:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13627. P. I. Spasski. 1943. Remains of Cetacea from upper Sarmatian of Derbent. Bulletin of the Academy of Science, URSS Cl. Math. Nat Ser. Biol 1943:221-227 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13329 G. Pilleri. 1986. Beobachtungen an Den Fossilen Cetaceen des Kaukasus 1-40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28993 P. I. Spasski. 1951. Ostaki iskopaemykh kitoobraznykh iz sarmatskikh otlozhenii okrestnostei Derbent. Trudy estestvenno-istoricheskogo muzia 8:188-226 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]