Taskotan, Alymtau Ridge: Santonian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Nessov 1984
"middle-sized undetermined turtles"
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Shachemys sp. Kuznetsov 1976
Danilov et al. 2011
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonioidea indet. Baur 1893
Nessov 1984
"very large Chelonioidea (Desmatochelyidae)"
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan State/province:Ongtustik Qazaqstan
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 68.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 62.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Syuksyuk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of the local section, probably in the Syuk-Syuk Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:58753
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, R. Benson, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-23 10:53:36 Last modified:2019-11-01 14:01:00
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-23 10:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16510.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

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]
41769 L. A. Nessov. 1984. Data on late Mesozoic turtles from the USSR. Studia Geologica Salamanticensia, vol. especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) 1:215-223 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
39261 L. A. Nessov. 1997. In L. B. Goloneva & A. O. Averianov (ed.), Nemorskiye Pozvonochnyye Melovogo Perioda Severnoy Yevrazii [Cretaceous Non-Marine Vertebrates of Northern Eurasia] 1-218 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]