Also known as Lakhuti-1

Where: Tajikistan (38.3° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 69.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kairubak suite Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "the mammal remains originate from the silty inter-layers of the pebble-silty deposits of the Kayrubak suite". Lakhuti 1 is a bone-bearing horizon in the western part of the outcrop, on the right bank of the Obimasar river, in the lower part of the pebble-silt member. It underlies the Jaramillo Event (therefore predates 1.05Ma), however Forsten and Sharapov date it to the Jaramillo (0.95Ma).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrinepebbly, silty

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Fossils discovered in the 1950s and excavated from 1968 onwards by the Physics Institute, the Geological Institute and Palaeontological Institute, the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, the TajikSSR Academy of Sciences.

Primary reference: M. V. Sotnikova and I. A. Vislobokova. 1990. Pleistocene Mammals from Lakhuti, Southern Tadjikistan, U.S.S.R. Quatarpalaontologie, Berlin 8:237-244 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 34102: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 18.08.2003

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