Monzhukly: Pleistocene, Turkmenistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Struthio asiaticus
Milne-Edwards 1871
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identified on eggshell fragments. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon sp.
Pohling 1888
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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] |