Tschukotschija-River, Oljor-Suite (Pleistocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Respublika Saha (Jakutija), Russian Federation (70.0° N, 159.3° E: paleocoordinates 70.0° N, 159.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene, Mindel

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, fine-grained, argillaceous, silty sandstone and peat

• loamy fine sand in horizontal layering, intercalated with thin layers of autochthon and allochthon peat

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. W. Sher. 1971. Säugetierfunde und Pleistozänstratigraphie in der Kolyma-Niederung (Pleistocene stratigraphy from the Kolyma fluvial plain and it's mammal fossils). Berichte der deutschen Gesellschaft für geologische Wissenschaften A, Geologie und Paläontologie 16(2):113-125 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48580: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
cf. Rangifer sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 reindeer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
? Soergelia sp. Schaub 1951 antelope
Praeovibos sp. Staudinger 1908 antelope
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
big form
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
subgen. Plesiohippus
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Panthera cf. spelaea" = Panthera leo spelaea
"Panthera cf. spelaea" = Panthera leo spelaea Goldfuss 1810 lion
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Archidiskodon sp." = Mammuthus
"Archidiskodon sp." = Mammuthus Brookes 1828 mammoth
(aut Mammauthus)