Khuchbay tracksite, Band-e-Turkestan (Jurassic of Afghanistan)

Where: Afghanistan (35.4° N, 64.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 73.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jurassic (201.4 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "thick sandstones, with some passing conglomerates with small rounded quartz pebbles; numerous imprints of tree branches. Two counter-prints of a vertebrate were observed on a slab, where are also seen tracks of worms and enigmatic traces."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and J. Stöcklin. 1972. Sur le Jurassique et le Crétacé du Band-e-Turkestan (Afghanistan du Nord-Ouest) [On the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Band-e-Turkestan (northwest Afghanistan)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 7 14:159-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59407: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.
? Sauropoda indet. sauropod
quadrupedal vertebrate tracks