Donguz-Tau (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Chelkar-Teniz

Where: Kazakhstan (46.7° N, 57.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 53.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chilikty Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by N.S. Shevyreva in 1968; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1999. Oligocene and Early Miocene Insectivores (Mammalia) from Western Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 33(2):182-191 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71672: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 06.05.2007, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ocadia turgaica1 Kuznetsov and Chkhikvadze 1977 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Trionyx turgaicus n. sp." = Trionyx ninae2
"Trionyx turgaicus n. sp." = Trionyx ninae2 Chkhikvadze 1971 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Pseudoparatalpa shevyrevae n. gen. n. sp. Lopatin 1999 mole
PIN, no. 2974/65 - type
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Neurogymnurus indricotherii n. sp. Lopatin 1999 hedgehog
PIN, no. 2974/63 - type; referred specimen: PIN, no. 2974/64
Amphechinus cf. kansuensis Bohlin 1942 hedgehog