Binagada asphalt lake (Pidoplichko collection) (Pleistocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• According to the most recent study, the age of Binagada fossils is approximately 120,000–96,000 BP (Zubakov, 1999)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. Pidoplichko in 1939

• Repository: National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Primary reference: L. V. Gorobets and V. O. Yanenko. 2018. Late Pleistocene birds from Binagada (Azerbaijan) in collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine). Vestnik Zoologii 52:31-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193354: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Anas crecca and Spatula querquedula
Mareca cf. penelope Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian wigeon
Mareca cf. strepera Linnaeus 1758 gadwall
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Sturnidae
"Sturnus roseus" = Pastor roseus
"Sturnus roseus" = Pastor roseus Linnaeus 1758 rosy starling
 Passeriformes - Alaudidae
Alaudidae indet. Vigors 1825 lark
Alauda leucoptera Pallas 1811 white-winged lark
Alauda cf. leucoptera Pallas 1811 white-winged lark
 Passeriformes - Motacillidae
Motacilla alba Linnaeus 1758 white wagtail
 Charadriiformes -
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
"Limicola falcinellus" = Calidris falcinellus Pontoppidan 1763 broad-billed sandpiper
Tringa glareola Linnaeus 1758 wood sandpiper
Tringa ochropus Linnaeus 1758 green sandpiper
Tringa erythropus Pallas 1764 spotted redshank
Gallinago media Latham 1787 great snipe
Gallinago gallinago Linnaeus 1758 common snipe