Kvabebi: Pliocene, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Parastrepsiceros sokolovi
Ioribos aceros
Eurocyon sp.
Agusti et al. 2009
Chasmaportetes lunensis
Agusti et al. 2009
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cf. primigenia (Wagner 1848)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Nyctereutes megamastoides (Pomel 1842)
original and current combination Canis megamastoides
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Therailurus sp. Piveteau 1948
    = Dinofelis sp. Zdansky 1924
McKenna and Bell 1997
Dinofelis abeli Zdansky 1924
Agusti et al. 2009
Machairodus davitasvilii
Homotherium davitashvili
Agusti et al. 2009
Puma pardoides
Agusti et al. 2009
Felis (Lynx) issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Lynx issiodorensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Ursus minimus Devéze and Bouillet 1827
Agusti et al. 2009
recombined as Euarctos minimus
Mammalia - Suidae
Propotamochoerus provincialis
Mammalia - Bovidae
Eosyncerus ivericus
Agusti et al. 2009
Gazella postmitilinii
Protoryx heinrichi
Oryx sp. de Blainville 1816
Oryx (Aegoryx) sp. de Blainville 1816
Agusti et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cervidae
Procapreolus sp. Schlosser 1929
Pseudalces sp. Flerov 1962
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus megarhinus (de Christol 1835)
misspelling Dihoplus megarhinus
Stephanorhinus megarhinus
Agusti et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion crusafonti
Hipparion rocinantis Hernández Pacheco 1921
Agusti et al. 2009
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Kvabebihyrax kachethicus
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 46.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.3° North, 47.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pliocene. Marine sediments equivalent to the continental Mesoaktshagylien age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Marine sediments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40392
Authorizer:A. Turner, M. Uhen Enterer:H. O'Regan, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-23 03:47:22 Last modified:2017-03-20 14:20:01
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-23 03:47:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10898.PACED L. Gabounia. 1974. A propos du Villafranchian du Caucase. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 78(1):145-148 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

48828 J. Agusti, A. Vekua, O. Oms, D. Lordkipanidze, M. Bukhsianidze, G. Kildaze, and L. Rock. 2009. The Pliocene-Pleistocene succession of Kvabebi (Georgia) and the background to the early human occupation of southern Caucasus . Quaternary Science Reviews 28(27-28):3275-3280 [M. Uhen/S. Alam/M. Uhen]
7584 M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]