Khuchbay tracksite, Band-e-Turkestan: Jurassic, Afghanistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Vertebrata indet.
(Lamarck 1801)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| quadrupedal vertebrate tracks | ||||||||||
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= ? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Taquet 1977 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Afghanistan |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 64.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.2° North, 73.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Altitude: | 2781 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1-6 |
| Key time interval: | Jurassic |
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "thick sandstones, with some passing conglomerates with small rounded quartz pebbles; numerous imprints of tree branches. Two counter-prints of a vertebrate were observed on a slab, where are also seen tracks of worms and enigmatic traces." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 59407 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-03-31 06:57:44 | Last modified: | 2019-04-12 12:57:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-31 06:57:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17046. | ETE | A. F. d. Lapparent and J. Stöcklin. 1972. Sur le Jurassique et le Crétacé du Band-e-Turkestan (Afghanistan du Nord-Ouest) [On the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Band-e-Turkestan (northwest Afghanistan)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 7 14:159-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 68574 | P. Taquet. 1977. Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |