Monzhukly: Pleistocene, Turkmenistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards 1871
identified on eggshell fragments.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon sp. Pohling 1888
1 individual
synonym of Mammuthus
many fragments of the same tooth.
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkmenistan
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 53.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 53.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Apsheronian = Eburonian. Fossils contained in pebble beds in at the base of the Upper Apsheronian deposit.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Interbedded sands, clay and aleurites and pebbles beds.
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:40687
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-28 05:05:52 Last modified:2004-06-28 10:25:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-28 05:05:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10958.PACED I. A. Dubrovo and A. N. Nigarov. 1990. Plio-Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrate Localities of South-Western Turkmenia, U.S.S.R. Quatarpalaontologie 8:35-45 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]