Where: Kazakhstan (46.8° N, 60.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 58.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Aral Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1996. The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 4(2):65-79 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175959: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Capatanka aff. schokensis" = Propalaeocastor schokensis
"Capatanka aff. schokensis" = Propalaeocastor schokensis Bendukidze 1993 beaver | |
Tataromys cf. sigmodon Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi | |
Palaeosciurus sp. Pomel 1853 squirrel | |
Sinolagomys pachygnathus Li and Qiu 1980 pika | |
Amphechinus cf. rectus hedgehog |