Suzak, Fergana (Cretaceous of Kyrgyzstan)

Where: Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan (41.0° N, 72.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 66.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "level below the layers with oysters"; below the Turonian Oyster Beds; lower strata of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone and red claystone

• "red sandstones, clays, and gravelstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rozhdestvensky in 1964

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 58585: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
partial pelvis with sacrum and femur