Charyn River Valley: Late/Upper Pliocene, Kazakhstan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Microlagomys aktogaiensis
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Villanyia petenyi
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Mimomys (Tcharinomys) haplodentatus
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Ellobius (Ellobius) tsharynensis n. sp.
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystricidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporinae indet.
Trouessart 1880
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Proochotona sp.
Chomenko 1914
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Geography
| Country: | Kazakhstan | State/province: | Alma-Ata | County: | Kegen |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 79.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.1° North, 79.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 1170 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Quaternary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ili |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,gray sandy claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray siltstone |
| Lithology description: light bluish-gray, sandy, slightly ferruginous clays with lenses of gray siltstone | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Collection method comments: "greater than 400 specimens" reported for rodents and lagomorphs | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 11796 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
| Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-10 07:49:38 | Last modified: | 2002-03-22 10:04:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-10 07:49:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4194. | 5% 19140 | L. A. Tyut'kova. 1989. A new species of spalacides (Rodentia) from the later Pliocene of southeastern Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 23(2):110-114 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde] |