Abshir River, Osh (Cretaceous of Kyrgyzstan)

Where: Osh, Kyrgyzstan (40.1° N, 72.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 66.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tokubai Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• beds are 40-50m below early Turonian Oyster Beds, corresponding to beds with Plicatotrigonoides simakovi

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, pebbly, gray sandstone and red claystone

• "red sandstones and clays"; bone encased on "gray, dense, coarse-grained sandstone with clayey pebble"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58469: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 08.02.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid