Also known as Tschigirin, Tyas'ma River

Where: Kiev, Ukraine (49.1° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• This locality is only suspected to be Oligocene. It is said to be late Eocene by Kalmykov (2012).

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48026: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.03.2005

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