Toru Ajgyr site I (Eocene of Kyrgyzstan)

Also known as Issyk-Kul

Where: Kyrgyzstan (42.5° N, 76.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 70.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chonkurchak Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Chonkurchak Svita

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Martin-Luther- University Halle (Germany), the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Seismological Institute in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1997 and 1998

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: J. Erfurt and A. Averianov. 2006. Mammals of the Eocene locality Toru Ajgyr (Kyrgyzstan). Palaeovertebrata 34(3-4):207-257 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177050: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
GIH TA I/75 and 31
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Teleolophus sp. Matthew and Granger 1925 tapir
GIH TA I
 Perissodactyla - Lophialetidae
Lophialetes sp. Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate
GIH TA I/2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17, 26-28, 33, 35, 42, 43, 46, 65, 66, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76-79, 88-93, 118 and 123
 Artiodactyla -
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate
GIH TA I/1
 Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Gobiatherium mirificum Osborn and Granger 1932 uintathere
GIH TA I/19