Karamaidan: Pliocene, Tajikistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
    = Equus ex gr. stenonis Cocchi 1867
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
    = Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus Falconer 1868
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
Mammalia - Camelidae
Paracamelus sp. Schlosser 1903
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella parasinensis
    = Gazella sinensis Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
Protoryx paralaticeps
    = Protoryx cf. laticeps
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio sp. Erxleben 1777
Forsten and Sharapov 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:Tajikistan
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 69.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.5° North, 68.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Formation:Kairubak suite
Regional section:Afghan-Tadzhik Depression
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. Palaeomagentic data indicate the lower part of the Matuyama Chron.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Two localities, one in the upper part of the river, another in the lower.
Metadata
Database number:34395
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-08-29 07:02:01 Last modified:2004-06-28 06:26:40
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-29 07:02:01
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]

Secondary references:

10946PACED A. Forsten and S. Sharapov. 2000. Fossil equids (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Neogene and Pleistocene of Tadzhikistan. Geodiversitas 22(2):293-314 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]