Buroinak BOR-3 (Cretaceous to of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Boroynak

Where: Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan (46.5° N, 64.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 57.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bostobe Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "greenish/grey shale with pink flecks at a point 1.5-2.0 m below the contact between these beds and the overlying uneroded red beds"; later described as "gey sands"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. A. Nessov. 1984. Data on late Mesozoic turtles from the USSR. Studia Geologica Salamanticensia, vol. especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) 1:215-223 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127817: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 25.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

• Nessov (1984) listed turtles from "Kansai, Kizylpiljal and Zhamuratsho localities, western Ferghana...Baibolat, Shach-Schach, Boronyak, Baybishe and Fogelevka in souther Kasakhstan" together, but only gave detailed information for the Boronyak
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Macrobaenidae
Anatolemys maximus
Anatolemys maximus Khozatskii and Nessov 1979 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Adocidae
Shachemys baibolatica, Adocus foveatus
Shachemys baibolatica Kuznetsov 1976 turtle
Adocus foveatus Nesov and Khozarskii 1977 turtle
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Lindholmemys gravis
Lindholmemys gravis Nessov and Khozatsky 1980 turtle