Khuday-Dag: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Turkmenistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus
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1 individual | |||||||||
synonym of Elephas | ||||||||||
1 partial skeleton | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Turkmenistan |
Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 54.6° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 54.5° 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 - Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.12600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Regional section: | Khuday-Dag depression | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Partial elephant skeleton buried in a remnant of a terrace deposit of the Palaeo-Amudarya. Latest Early Pleistocene to Early Middle Pleistocene (based on elephant morphology). |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: A horizon of fine grained light grey micaceous sand with abundant clay pebbles of pink-chocolate-brown colour. | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Type site of the species Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus. |
Metadata
Database number: | 40689 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-06-28 05:25:13 | Last modified: | 2004-06-28 10:26:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-28 05:25:13 |
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] |