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A revision of previously known material and analysis of new records of Miocene baleen whales from the Sarmatian of Adygea (city of Maikop, Blinovo Formation) resulted in the establishment of a new genus, Kurdalagonus with three species: K. mchedlidzei sp. nov. (Middle Sarmatian, Nagiezh-Uashkh locality), K. adygeicus sp. nov. (Upper Sarmatian, Hydroelectric power station locality), and K. maicopicus (Spasskii, 1951) (=Cetotherium maicopicum Spasskii, 1951; Middle Sarmatian, Hydroelectric power station locality).
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Original Russian Text © K.K. Tarasenko, A.V. Lopatin, 2012, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 5, pp. 86–98
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Tarasenko, K.K., Lopatin, A.V. New baleen whale genera (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the miocene of the northern caucasus and ciscaucasia: 1. Kurdalagonus gen. nov. from the middle-late Sarmatian of Adygea. Paleontol. J. 46, 531–542 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030112050115
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