Bozaby Site, Chu River (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Bozaba, Bet-Pak-Dala, Betpak-Dala

Where: Zhambyl, Kazakhstan (44.7° N, 71.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 64.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly conglomerate and gray, yellow claystone

• conglomerates with sandstone lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. Efremov in 1944

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: K. B. Yuryev. 1954. Kratkiy obzor nakhodok dinozavrov na territorii SSSR [A brief reivew of dinosaur finds in the USSR]. Uchenyye Zapiski, Leningradskogo Ordena Lenina Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 181(38):183-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53139: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
"predatory dinosaurs"
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
"trachodonts"