Khieu River, Eocene: Ypresian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Gerpegezhidae
Gerpegezhus paviai n. gen., n. sp. Bannikov and Carnevale 2012
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Balkariidae
Balkaria histiopterygia n. gen., n. sp. Bannikov et al. 2017
Bannikov et al. 2017 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Kabardino-Balkarian
Coordinates: 43.4° North, 43.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 38.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Abazinka
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Abazinka (= Nalchik) Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,brown claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fossil fishes are relatively abundant in a 0.5-m thick dark brown laminated sapropelitic layer located in the upper part of a monotonous marly clays
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Metadata
Also known as:Kheu River, Gerpegezh
Database number:218152
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-02-19 12:52:07 Last modified:2021-03-08 15:05:28
Access level:the public Released:2021-02-19 12:52:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
75658. A. F. Bannikov and G. Carnevale. 2012. A long-bodied centriscoid fish from the basal Eocene of Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia. Naturwissenschaften 99:379-389 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

75762 A. F. Bannikov, J. C. Tyler, D. Arcila and G. Carnevale. 2017. A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(2):129-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]