Tutak: Pliocene, Tajikistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Promimomys cf. baschkirica
Ellobius sp. Fischer 1814
see common names

Geography
Country:Tajikistan
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 70.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 69.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pliocene, Middle Villafranchian, MN17. In the Kuruksay formation, at the base of the loess-palaeosol formation that appears to start at 2.5Ma in China. Palaeomagnetic data indicate the lower part of the Matuyama Chron.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: at the base of the loess-palaeosol formation, indicating a climatic change to arid conditions.
Metadata
Database number:34394
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-08-29 06:52:44 Last modified:2003-08-29 09:56:28
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-29 06:52:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9043.PACED M.V. Sotnikova, A.E. Dodonov, and A.V. Pen'kov. 1997. Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133:243-258 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]