Kurshab (Cretaceous of Kyrgyzstan)

Where: Osh, Kyrgyzstan (40.7° N, 73.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 67.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kurshab Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• = Sharikhan = Karaalmin (Kara-Alma) Formations; originally dated as late Albian to early Turonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58470: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 08.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodon sp. Leidy 1856 hadrosaurid