Karagiya (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)

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
 Cetacea - Patriocetidae
Patriocetus kazakhstanicus n. sp. Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Microcetus sharkovi n. sp. Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971 toothed whale
 Carnivora - Pinnipedia
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
Aves
 Neornithes -
Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scombridae indet. Rafinesque 1815