Cherevichnoie, lower layer (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Cherevichnoe, Cherevychne, Cherevichnoje

Where: Odessa, Ukraine (46.6° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 30.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• "Upper Miocene (Lower Meotian, MN 12a)" (Zerova, 1993)

•According to the stratigraphic chart of Zerova (1993), the site is located in the Novoelizavetovsky faunistic subcomplex of the Belkinsky faunistic complex.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and gravel

• "sand-gravelitic alluvial deposits" (Zerova, 1993)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Szyndlar and G. A. Zerova. 1992. Miocene snake fauna from Cherevichnoie (Ukraine, USSR), with description of a new species of Vipera. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 184(1):87-99 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48175: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 15.03.2005, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla sp.2 Laurenti 1768 tree frog
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp.2 Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Caudata - Urodela
Mioproteus sp.2 Estes and Darevsky 1978 mudpuppy
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Scolecophidia indet. Duméril and Bibron 1844 snake
1 trunk vertebra (IZAN 45-5018)
 Squamata - Boidae
Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa
4 cervical vertebrae (one of them figured in the reference as IZAN 45-5022), 5 mid-trunk vertebrae (one of them figured as IZAN 45-5021), 1 anterior (IZAN 45-5019) and one posterior caudal vertebrae (IZAN 45-5020)
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera (Vipera) meotica n. sp. Zerova 1992 pit viper
Holotype: 1 basisphenoid (IZAN 45-5023); referred specimen: 18 fragmentary precaudal vertebrae (IZAN 45-5024 to 45-5041)
 Squamata - Colubridae
Elaphe cf. kochfidischi2 colubrid snake
cf. Elaphe kohfidischi Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985 colubrid snake
about 400 vertebrae, "mostly coming from the middle trunk region [...], usually badly preserved" (one is figured in the reference as IZAN 45-5026)
Natrix cf. longivertebrata Szyndlar 1984 water snake
all are trunk vertebrae (two of them figured in the reference as IZAN 45-5027 and 45-5028)
 Squamata - Lacertidae
? Lacerta sp.3 Linnaeus 1758 squamates
"dentaries of lacertids, presumably of the genus Lacerta s.l."
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp.3 Merrem 1820 legless lizard
"vertebrae and osteoscutes"
Aves
 Charadriiformes -
Cherevychnavis umanskae n. gen. n. sp.1
Cherevychnavis umanskae n. gen. n. sp.1 Bochenski et al. 2019 shorebird