Zasuchino (second horizon), Western Transbaikalia: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus ex gr. sanmeniensis Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Coelodonta sp. Bronn 1831
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotonoides cf. complicidens
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902
Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus Kormos 1932
Villanyia cf. laguriformes
Mammalia - Rodentia - Siphneidae
Prosiphneus sp. Teilhard de Jardin 1926
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
synonym of Spermophilus
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Western Transbaikalia
Coordinates: 51.8° North, 108.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.9° North, 108.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:Kudun
Stratigraphy comments: Late Villafranchian. This is the second faunistic horizon at Zasuchino, and is later than the Dodogol fauna. Latest Early Pleistocene (just before Brunhes/Matayama boundary).
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40265
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-21 07:30:07 Last modified:2004-06-23 06:02:18
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-21 07:30:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10889.PACED M. A. Erbaeva. 1986. The Late Cenozoic Faunistic complexes of Transbaikalia with special reference to the micromammalia. Quatarpalaontologie 6:25-28 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]