Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (54.0° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 86.0° E)
When: Sagarlyk Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• In the Late Cenozoic an almost continuous sequence of Quaternary sediments, over 150 m thick, ranging from the beginning of the Early Pleistocene to the Holocene, was accumulated in this area.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized, replaced with other
Primary reference: M. V. Sotnikova and I. V. Foronova. 2014. First Asian record of Panthera (Leo) fossilis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia, Russia. Integrative Zoology 9(4):517-530 [M. Uhen/G. Halstead-Johnson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 188681: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Guinevive Halstead-Johnson on 12.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus sanmeniensis, "Equus suessenbornensis" = Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
Equus sanmeniensis Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930 horse
"Equus suessenbornensis" = Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis Wüst 1901 horse | |
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth |