El'dar: Tortonian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Delphinus sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Odontoceti indet.
Uhen 2500
Mammalia - Primates
Primates indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Phocidae indet. Gray 1821
Uhen 2500
original and current combination Phocadae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena eldarica
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium transcaucasicum
Dicerorhinus aff. orientalis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium sp. Kaup 1833
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Cetotherium sp. Brandt 1843
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Achtiaria borissiakii
synonym of Palaeotragus
Camelopardalis (Helladotherium) sp. Schreber 1784
synonym of Giraffa
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragocerus aff. leskevischi
Tragocerus sp. Gaudry 1861
Tragocerus valenciennesi Gaudry 1861
recombined as Miotragocerus valenciennesi
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus erymanthius
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Mastodon longirostris Kaup 1832
recombined as Tetralophodon longirostris
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Dinotherium giganteum (Kaup 1829)
original and current combination Deinotherium giganteum
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mastodon pentilici
synonym of Mammut
Mastodon sp. Cuvier 1817
synonym of Mammut
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 45.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 49.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian Mammal zone: MN 10
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: upper Sarmatian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal 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:73901
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-07-12 05:48:33 Last modified:2020-06-05 15:42:34
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-12 05:48:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24838. E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]