Jradzor (Miocene of Armenia)

Also known as JZ-3 Section

Where: Shirak, Armenia (40.9° N, 43.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 43.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN13 mammal zone, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy sandstone

• The horizon is composed of clayey sand, representing an accumulation of weathering products from the surrounding volcanic rocks.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Vasilyan in 2018

Collection methods: quarrying,

• The material is stored in the palaeontological collections of the Institute of the Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (IGS)

Primary reference: D. Vasilyan and M. Bukhsianidze. 2020. The fossil record of the genus Varanus from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia). PeerJ 8(e8322):1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209755: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Besides the monitor lizard remains, a rich vertebrate faunal assemblage has been discovered, which includes amphibians, reptilian, avian as well as mammalian remains (Vasilyan et al., 2018)
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Reptilia
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus sp.
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard
One right dentary (IGS JRD-18/12) and one trunk vertebra (IGS JRD-18/13), Jradzor locality, horizon JZ-3, late Miocene, late Messinian, late MN13, Armenia