Inkerman, Crimea (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.6° N, 33.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 45.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 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 86755: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Desmophyllum laxum" = Desmophyllum excavatum Hagenow 1839 stony coral
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Thoracosaurus borissiaki n. sp. Efimov 1988 crocodilian
TsNIGRi c. 3373 no. 709 - type (well preserved partial skull). Originally described as T. macrorhynchus (Borisyak 1913) before being referred to T. scanius (Steel 1973)