Lower part of Kolyma River, Aljoschka-Suite: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
very small form
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Saiga ricei Frick 1937
synonym of Saiga tatarica
Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
very small form
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus cf. tanaiticus
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Respublika Saha (Jakutija)
Coordinates: 69.0° North, 161.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.0° North, 161.0° 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:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Aljoschka-Suite
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pleistocene, Riß/Würm and Würm; Aljoschka-Suite is younger than Early Alassy deposits and Jedoma-Suite
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48592
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-24 02:42:27 Last modified:2006-08-14 01:10:44
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-24 02:42:27
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]