Novosergeyevsk Quarry, Kedrovsk Suite.: Middle Pleistocene, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon trogontherii
1 specimen
1 fragment of left lower M3 (IGG 686).
    = Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885
McKenna and Bell 1997
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:West Siberia
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 86.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.0° North, 86.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kedrovsk
Regional section:Kuznetsk
Stratigraphy comments: In this sequence the base of Pleistocene is taken to be 0.8Ma = Early Middle Pleistocene. So this site is listed as Early Pleistocene but is equivalent to the Middle Pleistocene.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Bluish-grey clays and silts.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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
Also known as:Novosergeevsk
Database number:40485
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-24 04:53:10 Last modified:2004-06-24 07:53:42
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-24 04:53:10
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]