Piriha: Eocene, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus sp. Harlan 1834
    = Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
Uhen 2013
    = Pachycetus paulsoni
Gingerich et al. 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 33.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° North, 27.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
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
Database number:132383
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-16 04:40:25 Last modified:2012-08-15 13:40:25
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-16 04:40:25
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]
42488 M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]