Right bank of Ayaguz River, 29 km downstream from Ayaguz (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (50.4° N, 80.3° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 78.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Base of section referred to as Aral Svita

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, sandy claystone and sandy gravel

• mixed marine/freshwater
• Rusty green sandy clays and sandy gravel lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, R. J. Emry, and P. A. Tleuberdina. 1998. Franconictis (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Late Oligocene Of eastern Kazakstan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(3):504-510 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180344: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys cf. major Bohlin 1937 pika
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus cf. robustus Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908 beaver
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Franconictis aff. vireti Dehm 1950 mustelid carnivore
KAN 401-67
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Tragulidae indet. Milnes-Edwards 1864 chevrotain