Khodzhent: Late/Upper Pliocene, Tajikistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas cf. meridionalis Nesti 1825
recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis
see common names

Geography
Country:Tajikistan
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 69.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 69.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: lower Pleistocene?
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:76508
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-22 07:29:48 Last modified:2007-11-22 09:29:48
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-22 07:29:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24838. E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]