Belka: MN 12, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Miopica paradoxa
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Graecoryx bonus
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion moldavicum
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus orientalis
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Aceratherium incisivum (Cuvier 1824)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Cervidae
? Procapreolus ucrainicus
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Palaeotragus rouenii (Gaudry 1861)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Bovidae
Procapra rodleri
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Suidae
Microstonyx major (Gervais 1848)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus giganteus Wagner 1848
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Palinhyaena bessarabica
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Hyaenictitherium venator
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Ictitherium viverrinum Roth 1854
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Reptilia - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811
"trunk vertebrae"
Reptilia - Boidae
? Eryx sp. Daudin 1803
1 element
"one caudal vertebra of small erycine presumably of the genus Eryx
Reptilia - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820
"dentary and scales"
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Protestudo bessarabica (Riabinin 1918)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Miophasianus sp. Lambrecht 1933
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards 1871
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine State/province:Odessa County:Ivanivka
Coordinates: 46.9° North, 30.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.2° North, 29.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 12
Age range of interval:7.75000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Miocene (Middle Meotian, MN 12b)"
According to the stratigraphic chart in the primary reference, the site is located in the Belkinski faunistic subcomplex of the Belkinski faunistic complex.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "green-grayish clay"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Byelka, Bilka
Database number:167995
Authorizer:J. Mueller, E. Vlachos Enterer:T. Liebrecht, E. Vlachos
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-04-10 14:07:08 Last modified:2015-04-10 16:55:37
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-10 14:07:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54848. G. A. Zerova. 1993. Late Cainozoic localities of snakes and lizards of Ukraine. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume spéciale 7:273-280 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

71048 E. V. Syromyatnikova, T. V. Krakhmalnaya, V.M. Chkhikvadze and I.G. Danilov. 2019. Turtles Protestudo bessarabica from the Late Miocene of Ukraine. Paleontological Magazine 6:91-104 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]