Polevoe 1: Messinian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Cetotherium sp. Brandt 1843
Tarasenko and Titov 2009 1 specimen
    = Zygiocetus nartorum n. gen., n. sp. Tarasenko 2014
Tarasenko 2014
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Barbotella hoernesi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venerupis naviculata
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Adygea
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 40.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 39.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Krasnooktyabr’sk
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: "terminal Miocene"; Krasnooktyabrisky Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark clay beds
Environment:marine 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:Adygei
Database number:166428
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-02-12 16:39:37 Last modified:2015-07-16 09:25:46
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-12 16:39:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54350. K. K. Tarasenko. 2014. New Genera of Baleen Whales (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of the Northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 3. Zygiocetus gen. nov. (Middle Sarmatian, Adygea). Paleontological Journal 48(5):551-562 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

54351 K. K. Tarasenko and V. V. Titov. 2007. Records of Cetotherium sp. (Cetacea, Mammalia) in the Middle Sarmatian of Adygea. Sovremennaya paleontologiya: klassicheskie i noveishie metody. Tezisy IV Vserossiiskoi nauchnoi shkoly molodykh uchenykh–paleontologov (IV All􏰀Russia Scientific School of Young Scientists Paleontologists on Modern Paleontol􏰀 ogy: Classical and New Methods) 50-51 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
54352 K. K. Tarasenko and V. V. Titov. 2009. Records of Cetotherium sp. (Cetacea, Mammalia) in the Middle Sarmatian of Adygea. Sovremennaya paleontologiya: klassicheskie i noveishie metody—2009 (Modern Paleontology: Classical and New Methods—2009) 89-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]