Gulcha (Cretaceous of Kyrgyzstan)

Also known as Gul'cha

Where: Osh, Kyrgyzstan (40.3° N, 73.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 67.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of the Sharikhan formation, middle layers of strata at outcrop

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone and red claystone

• "red sandstones and clays"; "originating from the middle part of a thick stratum (more than 100 m) of multi-colored sandstones and clays, alternating with platy interlayers"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Martinson in 1962

Primary reference: A. K. Rozhdestvensky and L. I. Khozatsky. 1967. [Late Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from the Asiatic part of the USSR]. In G. G. Martinson (ed.), [Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene continental deposits of the Asiatic part of the USSR] 82-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58484: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 08.02.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigonioididae
Trigonioides sp. Kobayashi and Suzuki 1936 clam
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
undescribed bones