Also known as Navrukho, Kuruksai

Where: Tajikistan (38.3° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 69.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Kuruksai suite Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Middle Villafranchian, Late Pliocene, MN17. Below the Olduvai Subchron in the lower part of the Matuyama Chron. At the top of the Kuruksay/Kuruksai suite. There are 4 layers at the site - the three lowest are conglomerates and aleurites belonging to the Kuruksai suite (the bone bed is the second of these layers). The topmost bed is largely loessic clay and belongs to the Kairubak suite.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone and conglomeratic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Two localities have been excavated - Kuruksai-Navrukho and Kuruksai-Lagernaya. This is probably the faunal list from Navrukho.

•The locality was discovered in 1962.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34444: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.09.2003

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