Chigirin: Priabonian, Ukraine
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zeuglodon paulsonii n. sp.
Brandt 1873
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2 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Pachycetus paulsonii | |||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Striatolamia macrota
(Agassiz 1838)
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Dubrovo and Kapelist 1973 | ||||||
| original and current combination Otodus macrotus | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ukraine | State/province: | Kiev |
| Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 32.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.5° North, 28.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: This locality is only suspected to be Oligocene. It is said to be late Eocene by Kalmykov (2012). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: loess, "millstone grit" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tschigirin, Tyas'ma River | ||
| Database number: | 48026 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-10 13:02:19 | Last modified: | 2016-11-16 08:44:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-10 13:02:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11981. | J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 60839 | I. A. Dubrovo and K. V. Kapelist. 1973. Catalog of Localities of Tertiary Vertebrates of the USSR. 1-159 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |