Karagiya: Chattian, Kazakhstan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Gaviiformes
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Gaviiformes indet.
Wetmore and Miller 1926
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Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Pinnipedia
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Pinnipedia indet.
Illiger 1811
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Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Patriocetidae
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Patriocetus kazakhstanicus n. sp.
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
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Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Microcetus sharkovi n. sp.
Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Scombriformes
- Scombridae
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Scombridae indet.
(Rafinesque 1815)
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Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kazakhstan |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 51.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° North, 49.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Karaginskaya | Member: | Segendyk | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Segendyk unit of the fish-bed subsuite of the Karagiye suite (Pg3kr2sg) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphorite |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13096 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 08:27:54 | Last modified: | 2010-10-21 13:11:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-21 08:27:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4365. | 5% 39080 | I. A. Dubrovo and A. A. Sharkov. 1971. Kit iz verkhnego oligotsena Mangyshlaka (Whale from the upper Oligocene of Mangyshlak). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSR, Moscow 198(6):140-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 12143 | I. A. Dubrovo and A. E. Sanders. 2000. A new species of Patriocetus (Mamammalia, Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene of Kazakstan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):577-590 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |