Kairakkum C2 Formation: Pliocene, Uzbekistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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| Archidiskodon meridionalis meridionalis | ||||||||||
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= Mammuthus meridionalis
Nesti 1825
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | |||||||||
| Mammuthus meridionalis meridionalis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Elasmotherium sp.
Fischer 1808
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Geography
| Country: | Uzbekistan |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 69.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 68.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pliocene, Middle Villafranchian, MN17. Correlated with the Sokh suite. Faunal remains in the C2 Formation are associated with a boundary of normal and reversed polarity, interpreted as the Gauss/Matuyama boundary. |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 34443 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2003-09-01 06:46:48 | Last modified: | 2003-09-01 09:46:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-01 06:46:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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:
| 7584 | M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |