Klyastitsy (Miocene of Ukraine)

Where: Izmail, Ukraine (46.2° N, 29.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 28.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• JA: said to be "early Pliocene," meaning early Late Miocene = Tortonian in the modern marine time scale

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76313: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Mastodon longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris
"Mastodon longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros