Malyi Kalkan (PIN): Campanian - Maastrichtian, Kazakhstan
collected by V. Mukhin, I. Efremov, M. Prokhorov, E. Belyaeva 1925, 1927

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Deinodontidae indet. (Brown 1914)
synonym of Tyrannosauridae
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
Reptilia
? Stegosauridae indet. Marsh 1880
    = Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
Nessov 1995
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Acanthopholidae indet. (Nopcsa 1902)
synonym of Nodosauridae
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodontidae indet. Lydekker 1888
synonym of Hadrosauridae
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan State/province:Almaty
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 78.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 70.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Campanian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,white poorly lithified sandy conglomerate
Secondary lithology:yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "loose conglomerates (about three meters thick) and underlying light yellow sands colored black in places by manganese. Bones in the form of rounded pieces were found in the conglomerates."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Collectors:V. Mukhin, I. Efremov, M. Prokhorov, E. Belyaeva Collection dates:1925, 1927
Metadata
Also known as:Kshi-Kalkan, Qishi Qalqan, Bolshoi, Ulkenkalkan
Database number:53143
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-06 08:58:11 Last modified:2023-08-03 15:02:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 08:58:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18525.ETE I. A. Efremov. 1944. Dinozavrovyi gorizont crednei Azii i nekotorye volrosy stratigraphii [The dinosaur horizon of Central Asia and some aspeects of the stratigraphy]. Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geologicheskaia 3:40-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45996 A. O. Averianov, H.-D. Sues, and P. A. Tleuberdina. 2012. The forgotten dinosaurs of Zhetysu (Eastern Kazakhstan; Late Cretaceous). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 316(2):139-147 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
85320 A. O. Averianov and H.-D. Sues. 2017. Review of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Central Asia. Cretaceous Research 69:184-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16510ETE L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
14364ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1964. Novye dannye o mestonakhozhdeniyakh dinozavrov na territorii Kazakhstana i Srednei Azii [New data on occurrences of dinosaurs in Kazakhstan and Central Asia]. Tashkentskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Nauchnye Trudy: Geologiya [Tashkent State University, Scientific Publications: Geology] 234:227-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85555 A. K. Rozhdestvensky and L. I. Khozatsky. 1967. [Late Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from the Asiatic part of the USSR]. In G. G. Martinson (ed.), [Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene continental deposits of the Asiatic part of the USSR] 82-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65008 V. I. Yeliseyev. 1958. The problem of the genesis and the age of the dinosaur stratum in southeastern Bet-Pak-Dala. Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geologicheskaia 1958(9):75-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68327 K. B. Yuryev. 1954. Kratkiy obzor nakhodok dinozavrov na territorii SSSR [A brief reivew of dinosaur finds in the USSR]. Uchenyye Zapiski, Leningradskogo Ordena Lenina Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 181(38):183-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]