Esekartkan: Pliocene, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kazachstanicus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx ex gr. issiodorensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Lynx sp. (probably L. ex. gr. issiodorensis)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion houfenense
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Camelidae
Gigantocamelus longipes
    = Paracamelus sp. Schlosser 1903
Sotnikova et al. 1997
Mammalia - Cervidae
Sinomegaceros robustus
    = Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Sotnikova et al. 1997
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Bovidae
Antilospira sp. Teilhard de Jardin and Young 1931
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Proochotona cf. eximia
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 79.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 78.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pliocene, Early Villafranchian, MN16. At the base of the Ilian suite.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'The bone material was found in facially variable coarse fluvial deposits at the base of the Ilian suite. This suite was previously named as 'yellow brown suite' that expresses its general look rather correctly. It is composed of clays with beds and lenses of sandstones and gravels, coarsening at the base.'
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34437
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-01 04:14:33 Last modified:2003-09-01 07:14:34
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-01 04:14:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9043.PACED M.V. Sotnikova, A.E. Dodonov, and A.V. Pen'kov. 1997. Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133:243-258 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]