Samarkand Paleolithic Horse (Pleistocene of Uzbekistan)
Where: Uzbekistan (38.6° N, 68.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 68.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Age assigned by associated "Upper Paleolytic" cultural remains at the excavation.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: V. Gromova. 1946. A new fossil horse from Central Asia. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 54(4):347-350 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21197: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 20.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Taxonomic list refers only to the new horse species and "red deer" and "Bos" remains
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Mammalia | |
Equus valeriani n. sp.
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Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox |