Uilya-Kushlyuk (Eocene of Turkmenistan)

Also known as Uylya-Kushlyuk

Where: Turkmenistan (38.6° N, 56.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 51.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Danata Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• age after Bannikov & Tyler 1995

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov. 2011. New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102(4):253-300 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186444: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.06.2017, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Anguilliformes indet.1 Greenwood et al. 1966 eel
 Myctophiformes - Neoscopelidae
Neocassandra mica1 Daniltshenko 1968
 Lampridiformes - Turkmenidae
Turkmene finitimus1 Daniltshenko 1968
Danatinia casca1 Daniltshenko 1968
 Perciformes - Brotulidae
Eolamprogrammus senectus1 Danil'chenko 1968 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Serranus celebratus1 Danil'chenko 1968 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Kushlukiidae
Kushlukia permira2 Danil'chenko 1968 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Exelliidae
Exellia proxima1 Danil'chenko 1968 perch-like fish
 Tetraodontiformes - Bolcabalistidae
Eospinus daniltshenkoi1 Tyler and Bannikov 1992
 Acanthomorphata - Siganidae
"Siganopygaeus rarus" = Siganopigaeus rarus1
"Siganopygaeus rarus" = Siganopigaeus rarus1 Danil'chenko 1968
 Acanthuriformes - Luvaridae
Avitoluvarus mariannae n. sp.2, Avitoluvarus dianae n. gen. n. sp.2, "Proluvarus necopinatus" = Luvarus necopinatus1
Avitoluvarus mariannae n. sp.2 Bannikov and Tyler 1995
Avitoluvarus dianae n. gen. n. sp.2 Bannikov and Tyler 1995
"Proluvarus necopinatus" = Luvarus necopinatus1 Danil'chenko 1968
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
"Eocoelopoma portentosum" = Eocoelopoma portentosa Bannikov 1985
Scomberomorus avitus Bannikov 1985
 Scombriformes -
Argestichthys vysotzkyi Prokofiev 2002
 Scombriformes - Euzaphlegidae
Palimphyes palaeocenicus Daniltshenko 1968
 Scombriformes - Hemingwayidae
Hemingwaya sarissa Sytchevskaya and Prokofiev 2002
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Archaeus oblongus1 Danil'chenko 1968
 Acanthomorphata - Menidae
Mene triangulum1 Danil'chenko 1968 moonfish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
 Gonorhynchiformes - Chanidae
 Gasterosteiformes -
Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Archaeophis turkmenicus3 Tatarinov 1963 snake