Beloskelevatoye: Bartonian, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
    = Pachycetus paulsoni
Gingerich et al. 2022
Basilotritus uheni n. gen., n. sp. Goldin and Zvonok 2013
Goldin and Zvonok 2013 1 specimen
synonym of Pachycetus paulsonii
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine State/province:Luhansk County:Krasnodon
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 39.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 34.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kiev
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of Kiev horizon of Donetsk folded structure, as identified in in Stratigraphic schemes (1993), which is identified as the late Bartonian (see also Ryabokon’, 2002)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray,green siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: non-calcareous glauconitic greenish-gray siltstones
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:Beloskelevatoe
Database number:132393
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-16 05:03:36 Last modified:2013-03-19 14:55:13
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-16 05:03:36
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]