Kerch (Miocene of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (45.3° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 43.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Tarkhanian

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lithology not reported

• "deep-water marine"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 2002. Pattern of Insect Burial and Conservation. In A. P. Rasnitsyn, D. L. J.Quicke (eds.), History of Insects 17-63 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133082: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 01.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Aphodiinae indet. Leach 1815 scarab beetle
buried in association with deep-water marine photichthyid fish Vinciguerria merklini
Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Phosichthyidae
Vinciguerria merklini Danilchenko 1946