Tschukotschija-River, Oljor-Suite: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Praealces aff. latifrons
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
subgen. Plesiohippus
Mammalia - Cervidae
cf. Rangifer sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Bovidae
? Soergelia sp. Schaub 1951
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
big form
Praeovibos sp. Staudinger 1908
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera cf. spelaea (Goldfuss 1810)
recombined as Panthera leo spelaea
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon sp. Pohling 1888
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% 38960A. 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]