Otradnaja: Burdigalian - Langhian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Otradnocetus viridovi n. gen., n. sp. (Mchedlidze 1984)
Mchedlidze 1984 1 specimen
original and current combination Otradnocetus virodovi
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 41.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° North, 40.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian - Langhian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Age between Tarkhanian and Konkian (16.2–12.8 Ma) of the Eastern Paratethys, Middle Miocene. According to the map by Semenova & Uskov (1957), the locality represented by a single lithological unit between Urupsky and Otradnaya is dated as early as Tarkhanian, the stratum corresponding to the latest Burdigalian and early Langhian (16.2–15.3 Ma); however, Mchedlidze (1984) broadly dated it by the Middle Miocene without further evidence. No microfossils are associated with the specimen.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:49686
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-23 11:49:19 Last modified:2018-10-15 09:27:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-23 11:49:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13329. G. Pilleri. 1986. Beobachtungen an Den Fossilen Cetaceen des Kaukasus 1-40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

48154 P. Gol'din. 2018. New Paratethyan dwarf baleen whales mark the origin of cetotheres. PeerJ 6:e5800 [M. Uhen/J. Cooper/M. Uhen]
24582 G. A. Mchedlidze. 1984. Fossilized Whale from the Miocene Deposits in the Environs of the Village of Otradnaya (Northern Caucasus) 1-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]