Makovka Locality (Miocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kalba, Kazakhstan (49.3° N, 82.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 81.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pavlodar Group, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, pebbly, carbonaceous claystone and lithified, pebbly, gray, green claystone

• Primary lithology: pebble gravel with dense red-brown clay cement transitioning into a red-brown carbonaceous clay with gypsum crystals. Small mammal fossils recovered form the claystone.

•Secondary lithology: Green-gray and brown clays with lenses of course-grained "shingles" containeng clasts of the basement marls and sandstones. Abundant fossils in lenses

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O.D. Mos'kina and M. A. Erbaeva. 1979. The first find of Alloptox remains (Lagomorpha) in the USSR. Soviet Geology and Geophysics 20(6):100-101 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13481: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 02.04.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet.
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox cf. gobiensis
Alloptox cf. gobiensis Dawson 1961 pika
left lower P3