Syuk-Syuk (PIN) (Cretaceous to of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Tashkent

Where: Ongtustik Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan (41.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 63.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dabrazhin Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• = Dabrazinskaya Svita; possible = Syuksyuk Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; red conglomerate

• "a fairly consistent layer of conglomerate about one meter thick, with a layer of rosy marl, and fragments of dinosaur bone and wood."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Belen'kiy in 1961; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: G. A. Belenkiy and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1963. Nakhodka pervogo v SSSR skeleta krupnogo dinozavra [Discovery of the first large dinosaur skeleton in the USSR]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1963(1):141-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53133: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2005, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet.3 Haeckel 1866
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.1 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
tooth
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Procheneosaurus convincens n. sp." = Kazaklambia convincens4
"Procheneosaurus convincens n. sp." = Kazaklambia convincens4 Rozhdestvensky 1968 lambeosaurine
PIN 2230
 Theropoda -