Zherlepes (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (46.8° N, 60.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 58.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aral Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• late Oligocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, yellow, calcareous shale and claystone

• grayish yellow-green calcareous shale and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by L.S. Glikman in 1960

Primary reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1998. A Revision of the Early Miocene Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the North Aral Region. Paleontological Journal 32(3):291-304 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175969: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys pachygnathus Li and Qiu 1980 pika
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Aralomys glikmani n. sp." = Tachyoryctoides glikmani
"Aralomys glikmani n. sp." = Tachyoryctoides glikmani Vorontzov 1963 mouse
PIN, no. 1971/1 - type