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First Record of Basilosauridae (Mammalia, Cetacea) in the Eocene of the Krasnodar Territory (Apsheron District, Gorny Luch)

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This article describes two lumbar vertebrae, an isolated lumbar vertebra, and two endplates, possibly a thoracic (?) vertebra of a cetacean from the Basilosauridae family, found in 2020 and 2021 in the Upper Eocene light green clays of the Beloglinskaya Formation near the village of Gorny Luch, Apsheron District, Krasnodar Territory. In the shape and structure of the lumbar vertebrae, the whale from the Gorny Luch locality sharply differs from the typical Basilosaurinae. The new find is the first evidence of the presence of basilosaurids in the studied region, which significantly adds to our knowledge of the vertebrate fauna of Beloglinskaya age.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author thanks academician A.V. Lopatin (PIN) and I.A. Vislobokova (PIN) for discussing the manuscript, V.Yu. Kukharev and S.A. Zinoviev (Krasnodar) for collecting the rock and fossil specimens, A.F. Bannikov (PIN) for discussing the stratigraphy of the studied section and providing material on the stratigraphy of the studied section; H.J. van Vliet (Netherlands) for providing Pachycetus material from the Helmstedt locality and discussing the morphology of the vertebrae; F.D. Gingrich (Michigan University, United States) for providing electronic copies of several articles.

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This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-04-00057).

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Tarasenko, K.K. First Record of Basilosauridae (Mammalia, Cetacea) in the Eocene of the Krasnodar Territory (Apsheron District, Gorny Luch). Dokl Biol Sci 502, 11–14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496622010094

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