Kuruksay, Kuruksai-Navrukho: Pliocene, Tajikistan

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