Right bank of Ayaguz River, 29 km downstream from Ayaguz: Late/Upper Oligocene, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Franconictis aff. vireti (Dehm 1950)
KAN 401-67
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Tragulidae indet. Milnes-Edwards 1864
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys cf. major Bohlin 1937
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus cf. robustus Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908
Asiacastor antecdens
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 50.4° North, 80.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.5° North, 78.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Base of section referred to as Aral Svita
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green sandy claystone
Secondary lithology: sandy gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Rusty green sandy clays and sandy gravel lenses
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: mixed marine/freshwater
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:180344
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-13 11:24:16 Last modified:2016-07-13 11:24:16
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-13 11:24:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59850. 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]