Madygen, site 14 (Triassic to of Kyrgyzstan)

Also known as northern Madygen outcrop

Where: Batken, Kyrgyzstan (40.1° N, 70.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 60.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Grey-coloured Member (Madygen Formation), Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Upper Grey-coloured Member (T4), about 50 m below the top of the unit, dated as Ladinian or Carnian on the basis of macrofloral records (see Unwin et al. 2000)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, yellow shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A. G. Sharov in 1965; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying,

• FG: Geological Institute of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Primary reference: A. G. Sharov. 1971. Novye letayushche reptilii is Mesosoya Kazachstana i Kirgizii [New Mesozoic flying reptiles from Kazakhstan and Kirgizia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskiya Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 130:104-113 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115162: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.08.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Triassuridae
Triassurus sixtelae n. gen. n. sp.2
Triassurus sixtelae n. gen. n. sp.2 Ivakhnenko 1978 salamander
PIN 2584/10, impression of skeleton
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Drepanosauridae
Kyrgyzsaurus bukhanchenkoi n. gen. n. sp.1 Alifanov and Kurochkin 2011 diapsid
PIN, nos. 2584/12a and 2584/12b, partial skeleton
 Eosuchia -
Longisquama insignis n. gen. n. sp.3
Longisquama insignis n. gen. n. sp.3 Sharov 1970 diapsid
PIN 2584/4, incomplete skeleton and impression of integument. PIN 2584/5, 6, 7, 9. FG 596/V/1, 2, 3, integument
 Prolacertiformes - Podopterygidae
"Podopteryx mirabilis n. gen. n. sp." = Sharovipteryx mirabilis
"Podopteryx mirabilis n. gen. n. sp." = Sharovipteryx mirabilis Sharov 1971 archosauromorph
PIN 2584/8, nearly complete skeleton
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Madysauridae
Madysaurus sharovi n. gen. n. sp.4
Madysaurus sharovi n. gen. n. sp.4 Tatarinov 2005 cynodont
PIN 2584/11, partial skeleton