Aktau I (Miocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.0° N, 79.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 78.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Chul'adyr Formation, MN 4 (16.9 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: E.G. Kordikova and H. de Bruijn. 2001. Early Miocene rodents from the Aktau Mountains (South-Eastern Kazakhstan). Seckenbergiana lethaea 81(2):391-405 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71583: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 30.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
? Sinosminthus sp. Wang 1985 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Aktaumys dzhungaricus n. gen. n. sp. Kordikova and de Bruijn 2001 mouse
Karydomys dzerzhinskii n. sp. Kordikova and de Bruijn 2001 mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae