Pyatigorsk: Eocene, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Archaeoceti indet.
Flower 1883
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| "zeuglodon" | ||||||||||
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= Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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Zvonok 2012 | |||||||||
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= Pachycetus paulsoni
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Gingerich et al. 2022 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Russian Federation |
| Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 43.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.1° North, 37.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| 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: | Orbel'yanov Village | ||
| Database number: | 114208 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-08-12 03:26:10 | Last modified: | 2011-08-11 13:26:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-12 03:26:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12108. | G. A. Mchedlidze. 1970. Nekotorye obschie cherty istorii kitoobraznykh. Chast I 1-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 82775 | P. D. Gingerich, A. Amane, and S. Zouhri. 2022. Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. PLoS One 17(10):e0276110 [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/M. Uhen] | |
| 42656 | E. A. Zvonok. 2012. On the problematic Eocene cetacean from Nagornoye site (Kirovograd prov., Ukraine) and the significance of archaeocetes for stratigraphic research. Geolog Ukrainy 1-2:87-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro] |