Nagornoye: Bartonian, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Clerolamna umovae
Goldin et al. 2014
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
1 specimen
    = Basilotritus sp. Goldin and Zvonok 2013
Goldin et al. 2014
    = Platyosphys sp. Kellogg 1936
van Vliet et al. 2019
    = Pachycetus paulsoni
Gingerich et al. 2022
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816
Goldin et al. 2014
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Hemiscyllium bruxelliensis Herman 1977
Goldin et al. 2014
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias acutissimus (Agassiz 1843)
Goldin et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine State/province:Kirovograd
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 33.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.9° North, 28.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kiev Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark-green highly glauconitic rock with high sand content and with numerous fish teeth and bones
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Geological Museum of the Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University
Metadata
Also known as:Nagirne, Nagorno, Nagornoe
Database number:132381
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-16 01:09:47 Last modified:2014-01-23 09:55:28
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-16 01:09:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
45798 P. Goldin and E. A. Zvonok. 2013. Basilotritus uheni, a New Cetacean (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Late Middle Eocene of Eastern Europe. Journal of Paleontology 87(2):254-268 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]
49920 P. Goldin, E. A. Zvonok, L. Rkovets, A. Kovalchuk, and T. Krakhmalnaya. 2014. Basilotritus (Cetacea: Pelagiceti) from the Eocene of Nagornoye (Ukraine): New data on anatomy,ontogeny and feeding of early basilosaurids. Comptes Rendus Palevol [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]
61627 H. J. van Vliet, O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, A. S. Schulp, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2019. A Palaeogene cetacean from Maastricht, southern Limburg (The Netherlands). Cainozoic Research 19(1):95-113 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]