Where: Kazakhstan (43.8° N, 51.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 49.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Segendyk Member (Karaginskaya Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Segendyk unit of the fish-bed subsuite of the Karagiye suite (Pg3kr2sg)
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: I. A. Dubrovo and A. A. Sharkov. 1971. Kit iz verkhnego oligotsena Mangyshlaka (Whale from the upper Oligocene of Mangyshlak). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSR, Moscow 198(6):140-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13096: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Patriocetus kazakhstanicus n. sp.
Patriocetus kazakhstanicus n. sp. Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 toothed whale | |
Microcetus sharkovi n. sp.
Microcetus sharkovi n. sp. Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971 toothed whale | |
Pinnipedia indet. pinniped | |
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Aves | |
Gaviiformes indet. loon | |
Actinopteri | |
Scombridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 |