Mitridat Mountain: Tortonian, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Mastodon cf. longirostris Kaup 1832
recombined as Tetralophodon longirostris
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Mithridatocetus sp. Goldin and Startsev 2017
Goldin and Startsev 2017 15 specimens
species 1
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 45.3° North, 36.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.0° North, 40.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chersonian
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper Sarmatian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kerch
Database number:75089
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-21 13:25:51 Last modified:2016-10-21 08:45:37
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-21 13:25:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24838. E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

60648 P. Goldin and D. Startsev. 2017. A systematic review of cetothere baleen whales (Cetacea, Cetotheriidae ) from the Late Miocene of Crimea and Caucasus, with a new genus. Papers in Paleontology 3(1):49-68 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]