Tschukotschija-River, Oljor-Suite: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Praealces aff. latifrons
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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subgen. Plesiohippus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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cf. Rangifer sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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? Soergelia sp.
Schaub 1951
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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big form | ||||||||||
Praeovibos sp.
Staudinger 1908
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera cf. spelaea
(Goldfuss 1810)
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recombined as Panthera leo spelaea | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon sp.
Pohling 1888
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synonym of Mammuthus | ||||||||||
(aut Mammauthus) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Russian Federation | State/province: | Respublika Saha (Jakutija) |
Coordinates: | 70.0° North, 159.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 70.0° North, 159.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Regional section: | Oljor-Suite | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pleistocene, Mindel |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,fine unlithified argillaceous,silty sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | peat |
Lithology description: loamy fine sand in horizontal layering, intercalated with thin layers of autochthon and allochthon peat | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Collection size: | 200 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 48580 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | S. Kuemmell |
Modifier: | S. Kuemmell | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-24 01:51:34 | Last modified: | 2005-03-24 03:53:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-24 01:51:34 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12964. | 5% 38960 | A. W. Sher. 1971. Säugetierfunde und Pleistozänstratigraphie in der Kolyma-Niederung (Pleistocene stratigraphy from the Kolyma fluvial plain and it's mammal fossils). Berichte der deutschen Gesellschaft für geologische Wissenschaften A, Geologie und Paläontologie 16(2):113-125 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] |