Karacheku / Dzhurtan: Campanian - Maastrichtian, Kazakhstan
collected by A. Kirkov, E. Belyaeva, M. Prokhorov, V. Bazhanov 1926–1927, 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Deinodontidae indet. (Brown 1914)
synonym of Tyrannosauridae
Tarbosaurus aff. bataar (Maleev 1955)
1 specimen
    = Tyrannosaurinae indet. Matthew and Brown 1922
Averianov et al. 2012
IZK 33/MP-61, a right dentary missing the posterior portion and all functional teeth
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
? Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Reptilia
cf. Ceratopsia indet. Marsh 1890
Nessov 1995 1 specimen
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Nessov 1995
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodontidae indet. Lydekker 1888
    = Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Nessov 1995
Reptilia
? Stegosauria indet. Marsh 1877
    = Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
Nessov 1995
Acanthopholidae indet. (Nopcsa 1902)
    = Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
Nessov 1995
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
Nessov 1995 4 specimens
ZIN. PHT No K27 - 1; large parts of nuchal and I peripheral plates of left side
    = Adocus dzhurtasensis n. sp. Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2009
Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2009
orig. Shachemys sp.; ZIN PH 92. Holotype ZIN PHTno. K27-1, nuchal+left peripheral 1; plus ZIN PH 3/92, epiplastron; ZIN PH 1/92, fragment of the anterior lobe, including epiplastra and entoplastron; ZIN PH 4/92, hypoplastron; ZIN PH 5/92, xiphiplastron
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Nessov 1995 1 specimen
big Trionychidae (Khozatsky, 1957)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan State/province:Aqmola
Coordinates: 44.2° North, 77.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 69.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:159 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Campanian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed unit, orig. Santonian–early Campanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown poorly lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "loose, brown conglomerates 1.5 to 2 m thick"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:A. Kirkov, E. Belyaeva, M. Prokhorov, V. Bazhanov Collection dates:1926–1927, 1950
Metadata
Also known as:Kara-Cheku, Karachoku, Karacheko, Karashoy, Dzhurtas, Dzhurmas
Database number:53140
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-06 08:44:27 Last modified:2023-08-03 15:05:53
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 08:44:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18525.ETE I. A. Efremov. 1944. Dinozavrovyi gorizont crednei Azii i nekotorye volrosy stratigraphii [The dinosaur horizon of Central Asia and some aspeects of the stratigraphy]. Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geologicheskaia 3:40-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45996 A. O. Averianov, H.-D. Sues, and P. A. Tleuberdina. 2012. The forgotten dinosaurs of Zhetysu (Eastern Kazakhstan; Late Cretaceous). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 316(2):139-147 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
85320 A. O. Averianov and H.-D. Sues. 2017. Review of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Central Asia. Cretaceous Research 69:184-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
37404ETE I. G. Danilov, V. B. Sukhanov, and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2011. New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):101-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
16510ETE L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
41932 L. A. Nessov. 1995. On some Mesozoic turtles of the Fergana Depression (Kyrgyzstan) and Dzhungar Alatau Ridge (Kazakhstan). Russian Journal of Herpetology 2(2):134-141 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
14364ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1964. Novye dannye o mestonakhozhdeniyakh dinozavrov na territorii Kazakhstana i Srednei Azii [New data on occurrences of dinosaurs in Kazakhstan and Central Asia]. Tashkentskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Nauchnye Trudy: Geologiya [Tashkent State University, Scientific Publications: Geology] 234:227-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85555 A. K. Rozhdestvensky and L. I. Khozatsky. 1967. [Late Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from the Asiatic part of the USSR]. In G. G. Martinson (ed.), [Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene continental deposits of the Asiatic part of the USSR] 82-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61991 M. J. Ryan. 1997. Middle Asian dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 442-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41724 E. V. Syromyatnikova and I. G. Danilov. 2009. New material and a revision of turtles of the genus Adocus (Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of middle Asia and Kazakhstan. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 313(1):74-94 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
65008 V. I. Yeliseyev. 1958. The problem of the genesis and the age of the dinosaur stratum in southeastern Bet-Pak-Dala. Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geologicheskaia 1958(9):75-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68327 K. B. Yuryev. 1954. Kratkiy obzor nakhodok dinozavrov na territorii SSSR [A brief reivew of dinosaur finds in the USSR]. Uchenyye Zapiski, Leningradskogo Ordena Lenina Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 181(38):183-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]