Mokhovsk Quarry: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon cf. meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
1 left upper M3 (IGG 4096). | ||||||||||
= Mammuthus cf. meridionalis
Nesti 1825
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Russian Federation | State/province: | West Siberia |
Coordinates: | 54.7° North, 86.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 54.7° North, 86.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | ? Sergeyevsk | Local bed: | VI | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Regional section: | Kuznetsk | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ?final part of the Late Pliocene - the Pliocene in this area is taken to end at 0.8Ma, making it Late Lower Pleistocene in most other schemes. ?Sergeyevsk suite. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: pale yellow-brown compact unstratified loams with buried soils. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Material held in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novobirsk (IGG). |
Metadata
Database number: | 40484 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-06-24 04:40:55 | Last modified: | 2004-06-24 07:44:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-24 04:40:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10911. | PACED | I. V. Foronova. 1986. Elephants of the Genus Archidiskodon from the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Kuznetsk Basin (southeastern West Siberia). Quatarpalaontologie 6(29):29-42 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
7584 | M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |