Karaoi, Sarykuduk (Cretaceous to of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Karoi, Karaya

Where: Almaty, Kazakhstan (44.1° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 68.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. I. Yakovlev in 1927

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical,

Primary reference: I. A. Efremov. 1944. Dinozavrovyi gorizont crednei Azii i nekotorye volrosy stratigraphii [The dinosaur horizon of Central Asia and some aspeects of the stratigraphy]. Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geologicheskaia 3:40-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59732: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.04.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
"Acanthopholidae indet." = Nodosauridae2
"Acanthopholidae indet." = Nodosauridae2 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.2 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle