Ordzhonikidze (Eocene of Ukraine)

Where: Dnipropetrovska Oblast, Ukraine (47.7° N, 34.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 29.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kievskaya Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86750: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
"Thunnus abchasicus" = Thunnus abchazicus
"Thunnus abchasicus" = Thunnus abchazicus Danil’chenko 1951
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus procumbens Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral