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New finding of the ancient whale Basilosaurus (Cetacea, Archaeoceti: Basilosauridae) in the Lower Don area

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The taxonomy and stratigraphic location of new remains of an ancient whale (Basilosaurus) discovered on the western coast of the Tsymlyansk water reservoir are considered. The Kharkov Formation deposits containing these remains are described, and their age is substantiated. The Basilosaurus remains discovered in the Lower Don area indicate that in the Late Eocene the ocean covered the southern part of the Russian Platform almost entirely.

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  1. Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    N. P. Kalmykov

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Original Russian Text © N.P. Kalmykov, 2012, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 442, No. 4, pp. 521–523.

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Kalmykov, N.P. New finding of the ancient whale Basilosaurus (Cetacea, Archaeoceti: Basilosauridae) in the Lower Don area. Dokl. Earth Sc. 442, 178–180 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X12020055

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