Priozernyi Quarry, Kushmurun: Maastrichtian, Kazakhstan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hesperornithiformes
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Asiahesperornis bazhanovi n. gen., n. sp.
Nessov and Prizemlin 1991
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13 specimens | |||||||||
| IZASK 5/287/86, 86a | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Nessov 1995 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kazakhstan | State/province: | Qostanay |
| Coordinates: | 52.5° North, 64.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 55.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 101 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Zhuravlevskaya | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper Santonian --lower Campanian or upper Campanian - ?lower Maastrichtian; at the base of gray-colored layer, belonging to the Zhuravlevskaya(?) Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly,phosphatic,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "gray sandstones with gravel and phosphorites" | |
| Environment: | marine 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 |
| Collection method comments: hadrosaurid remains found in a marine assemblage | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 59383 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-03-30 09:39:15 | Last modified: | 2019-06-25 13:27:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-30 09:39:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38158. | L. A. Nessov and B. V. Prizemlin. 1991. Krupnye evolyutsionno prodvinutye neletatsshchie morskie ptitsy otryada gesperornisoobraznykh pozdnego Senona Turgayskogo proliva: pervye nakhodki gruppy v SSSR [A large advanced flightless marine bird of the order Hesperornithiformes from the late Senonian of Turgai Strait: the first discovery of the group in the USSR]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 239:85-107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 26844 | ETE | G. J. Dyke, D. V. Malakhov, and L. M. Chiappe. 2006. A re-analysis of the marine bird Asiahesperornis from northern Kazakhstan. Cretaceous Research 27:947-953 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 18352 | ETE | E. N. Kurochkin. 2000. Mesozoic birds of Mongolia and the former USSR. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 533-559 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] |
| 61991 | M. J. Ryan. 1997. Middle Asian dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 442-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |