Karagiya: Chattian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda
Gaviiformes indet. Wetmore and Miller 1926
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
Reptilia - Crocodilia
Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
Mammalia - Carnivora - Pinnipedia
Pinnipedia indet. Illiger 1811
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
Mammalia - Cetacea
Microcetus sharkovi n. sp. Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Patriocetidae
Patriocetus kazakhstanicus n. sp. Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000 1 specimen
Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scombridae indet. (Rafinesque 1815)
Dubrovo and Sanders 2000
see common names

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% 39080I. 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]