Karachadalysai (upper) (Cretaceous of Uzbekistan)

Also known as Karachadalysay

Where: Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan (40.1° N, 67.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 61.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of the Beshtyubin Formation, 1.5-2 m above Karachadalysai (lower) site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous, black 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 59698: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus sp. Cope 1876 guitarfish
Reptilia
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Lindholmemys sp. Riabinin 1935 turtle
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
 Ornithischia -
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Theropoda -