Mokhovsk Quarry: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon cf. meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
1 specimen
1 left upper M3 (IGG 4096).
    = Mammuthus cf. meridionalis Nesti 1825
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]