Hrabarsko (Miocene of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (42.8° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 22.9° E)

When: Balsha Member (Gnilyane Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Pontian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Boev. 2000. A Lower Miocene gull (Larinae gen. indet.) (Laridae Vigors, 1825 - Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867) from Hrabarsko (W Bulgaria). Geologica Balcanica 30(1-2):25-31 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215636: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larinae indet. Bonaparte 1831 gull
 Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax serdicensis n. sp. Burchak-Abramovich and Nikolov 1984 cormorant
 Passeriformes - Alaudidae
Melanocorypha sp. Boie 1828 lark
n. sp.
cf. Lullula sp. Kaup 1829 lark
cf. Galerida sp. Boie 1828 lark
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Gomphotherium (Trilophodon) angustidens Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere
Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere
 Chiroptera - Emballonuridae
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus timidus Linnaeus 1758 mountain hare
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion praesulcatum hipparionine horse
Hipparion mediterraneum Roth and Wagner 1855 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros