Also known as Byelka, Bilka
Where: Odessa, Ukraine (46.9° N, 30.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 29.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• "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.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, gray, green claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167995: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 10.04.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon | |
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere | |
Stephanorhinus orientalis rhinoceros
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros | |
Hipparion moldavicum hipparionine horse | |
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
Procapra rodleri antelope | |
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe
Palaeotragus rouenii Gaudry 1861 giraffe | |
Ictitherium viverrinum Roth 1854 hyaena
Hyaenictitherium venator hyaena
Palinhyaena bessarabica hyaena
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena | |
Machairodus giganteus Wagner 1848 cat | |
Reptilia | |
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? Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa "one caudal vertebra of small erycine presumably of the genus Eryx
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Aves | |
Miophasianus sp. Lambrecht 1933 pheasant | |
Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards 1871 Asian ostrich | |
Reptilia | |
Protestudo bessarabica Riabinin 1918 turtle |