Malyi Kamyshlak Fossil

These are marine deposits of the Eastern Paratethys along the northern coast of the Kerch Peninsula (Crimean Peninsula) from Cape Tarkhan to Yurkino Village. The Malyi Kamyshlak locality (hypostratotype of the Tarkhan Regional Stage) is 3 km from Yurkino Village; these deposits date to the Middle Miocene (Tarkhan Regional Stage, Argun Beds, 16 to 13.6 mya; Gontsharova, 1989).