Khuday-Dag Depression collections 1983-1984: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Turkmenistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Siluridae
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Silurus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Elephas | ||||||||||
| 1 last upper molar. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Elasmotherium sp.
Fischer 1808
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| several tooth fragments. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| a small fragment of deer antler | ||||||||||
| 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: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Regional section: | Khuday-Dag depression | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 'All remains are known from the horizon of grey micaeous sands with clay pebbles.' Deposition of this horizon began at the end of the Bakinian and continued into the Khazarian. (= Cromerian to Holsteinian, = Middle-Late Pleistocene). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: grey micaeous sands with clay pebbles. | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 40690 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-06-28 05:32:28 | Last modified: | 2004-06-28 10:26:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-28 05:32:28 |
| 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] |