Kiin Kerish (Kusto svita): Early/Lower Oligocene, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx zaisanensis n. sp. Chkhikvadze 1973
Vitek and Danilov 2015
synonym of Trionyx ninae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Cadurcodon ardynensis (Osborn 1924)
KAN 35-18-50
Amynodon tuskabakensis n. sp. Biryukov 1963
synonym of Cadurcodon ardynensis
KAN Z-K-57-260/1419 - type
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 47.0° North, 84.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.2° North, 81.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Kusto svita
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lake Zaysan
Database number:177065
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2016-03-18 11:39:18 Last modified:2016-03-18 12:22:32
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-18 11:39:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58493. S. G. Lucas and R. J. Emry. 1996. Biochronological significance of Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Paleogene of Kazakhstan. Journal of Paleontology 70(4):691-696 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

59546 N. S. Vitek and I. G. Danilov. 2015. New material of Ulutrionyx ninae from the Oligocene of Kazakhstan, with a review of Oligocene trionychids of Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e973570:1-9 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]