Uchkuduk (Cretaceous of Uzbekistan)

Where: Navoi, Uzbekistan (41.8° N, 63.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 58.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uchkuduk Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• also listed as Bissekty Fm., late Turonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Specimens may be plesiosaurs

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 58591: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.02.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Shachemys ancestralis Nessov 1984 turtle
 Dinosauria -