Kuruksay, Kuruksai-Navrukho: Pliocene, Tajikistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon cf. gromovi Alexeeva and Garutt 1965
    = Mammuthus cf. gromovi Alexeeva and Garutt 1965
McKenna and Bell 1997
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
small form (compared to the larger E. stenonis, above)
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
E. s. pamirensis (= E.s. bactrianus)
Osteichthyes - Bovidae
Damalops palaeindicus Falconer 1859
Antilospira sp. Teilhard de Jardin and Young 1931
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891
Osteichthyes - Giraffidae
Sivatherium sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836
Osteichthyes - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
Osteichthyes - Camelidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Canidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx ex gr. issiodorensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Acinonyx cf. pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Megantereon megantereon Croizet and Jobert 1828
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Chasmaporthetes lunensis Del Campana 1914
Chasmaporthetes lunensis kani
Pliocrocuta perrieri Kretzoi 1938
Osteichthyes - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ellobius sp. Fischer 1814
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Hystricidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Tajikistan
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 69.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 69.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuruksai suite Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Afghan-Tadzhik Depression
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Villafranchian, Late Pliocene, MN17. Below the Olduvai Subchron in the lower part of the Matuyama Chron. At the top of the Kuruksay/Kuruksai suite. There are 4 layers at the site - the three lowest are conglomerates and aleurites belonging to the Kuruksai suite (the bone bed is the second of these layers). The topmost bed is largely loessic clay and belongs to the Kairubak suite.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Lithology description: Fluvial deposits - siltstone, sandstone with interbedded conglomerates, belonging to the Kuruksay suite.
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Two localities have been excavated - Kuruksai-Navrukho and Kuruksai-Lagernaya. This is probably the faunal list from Navrukho.
The locality was discovered in 1962.
Metadata
Also known as:Navrukho, Kuruksai
Database number:34444
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-01 07:12:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-01 07:12:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
9043.PACED M.V. Sotnikova, A.E. Dodonov, and A.V. Pen'kov. 1997. Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133:243-258 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

10946PACED A. Forsten and S. Sharapov. 2000. Fossil equids (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Neogene and Pleistocene of Tadzhikistan. Geodiversitas 22(2):293-314 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
7584 M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]