Lakhuti 2 Main collection: Pleistocene, Tajikistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Meriones lakhutensis
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetulus sp.
Milne-Edwards 1867
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Microtus (Phaiomys) lakhutensis
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Clethrionomys sp.
Tilesius 1850
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
synonym of Myodes | ||||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Allophaiomys ? sp.
Kormos 1932
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Crocidura sp.
Wagler 1832
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
not at this locality - see lakhuti 2 point. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Sotnikova et al. 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. namadicus
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelus cf. knoblochi
Nehring 1901
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Praemegaceros sp.
Portis 1920
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Sinomegaceros sp.
Chow et al. 1965
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very large | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Gazellospira sp.
Pilgrim and Schaub 1939
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
Bison cf. schoetensacki
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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= Homotherium teilhardi-piveteaui in Forsten and Sharapov. | ||||||||||
Panthera gombaszoegensis
(Kretzoi 1938)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Gervais 1850)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Meles ex gr. meles
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis (Xenocyon) lycaonoides
(Kretzoi 1938)
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Sotnikova et al. 1997 | |||||||||
= Xenocyon lycaonoides
Kretzoi 1938
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
Canis cf. mosbachensis
Soergel 1925
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Sotnikova et al. 1997 | |||||||||
= Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
Canis lupus mosbachensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon cf. antiquus
(Falconer and Cautley 1847)
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Forsten and Sharapov 2000 | |||||||||
Archidiskodon sp.
Pohling 1888
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= Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tajikistan |
Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 70.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 38.4° North, 69.9° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Member: | Kayrubak | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "the mammal remains originate from the silty inter-layers of the pebble-silty deposists of teh Kayrubak suite". At Lakhuti 2 main the bones are "associated with brown inter-layers of calcareous water-lain silts". "The pebble-silts of the Kayrubak formation are 13-14m thick here. They lie above the Jaramillo event and below the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary" (ie. between 1.0-0.78Ma). Lenticular accumulations of bones are found from the waterline to 2m above it and can be traced 60-70m along the bank. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: At Lakhuti 2 main the bones are "associated with brown inter-layers of calcareous water-lain silts, which replaces the grey-green silts of the preceding locality" (Lakhuti 2 point). "The pebble-silts of the Kayrubak formation are 13-14m thick here. They lie above the Jaramillo event and below the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary" (ie. between 1.0-0.78Ma). The lenticular accumulations of bones are found from the waterline to 2m above it and can be traced 60-70m along the bank. | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: Bones are found in the Kayrubak suite which unconformably overlies Lower Pliocene red sandstones and underlies thick Pleistocene loesses containing many fossil soil horizons. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: Fossils were discovered in the 1950s and excavated from 1968 onwards by the Physics Institute, the Geological Institute and the Palaeontological Institute, the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, the TajikSSR Academy of Sciences. | |
Taxonomic list comments:"Among these mammalian remains, carnivores are abundant in species number and cervids are abundant in the quantity of their remains" |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lakhuti-2 main | ||
Database number: | 34104 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2003-08-18 04:48:22 | Last modified: | 2003-09-01 10:52:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-08-18 04:48:22 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
8649. | PACED | 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] |
Secondary references:
10946 | PACED | 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] | |
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] |