Pshekha River (Eocene of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (44.7° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 35.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kuma Horizon Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• 1 km upstream from Gorny Luch

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov. 2011. New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102(4):253-300 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186448: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Palaeorhynchidae
Palaeorhynchus parini Bannikov 1992
 Scombriformes - Euzaphlegidae