Bessarabian (Tortonian, Late Miocene) fish otoliths from a transitional freshwater-brackish environment of Mykhailivka, Southern Ukraine
Journal: Palaeontologia Electronica
Year: 2017

The Mykhailivka sedimentary section in southern Ukraine of middle (Bessarabian) to late (Khersonian) Sarmatian s.l. age is well known for its rich vertebrate finds in alternating marginal marine to estuarine and lacustrine environments. Here we describe fish otoliths obtained from sediments from a supposedly estuarine environment that had already yielded fossil fish bones and teeth described earlier. The otolith association is dominated by three species of gobiids, which are all related to the e