Kyrkkuduk II: Early/Lower Campanian, Kazakhstan
collected 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Reptilia - Troodontidae
cf. Troodon sp. Leidy 1856
    = Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924
Averianov and Sues 2007
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Reptilia
Brachychampsa sp. Gilmore 1911
Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Lophochelyinae indet. Zangerl 1953
Averianov 2002
Mammalia
Eutheria indet. (Huxley 1880)
Averianov 1997
Mammalia - Zhelestidae
? Aspanlestes sp. Nessov 1985
Averianov 1997
Mammalia - Zalambdalestidae
Alymlestes kielanae n. gen., n. sp. Averianov and Nessov 1995
Averianov 1997
Mammalia - Otlestidae
? Otlestidae indet. (Nessov 1985)
Averianov 1997
invalid subgroup of Zalambdalestoidea
Mammalia - Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae
Deltatheridium nessovi n. sp. Averianov 1997
Averianov 1997
Mammalia - Multituberculata
? Bulganbaatar sp. Kielan-Jaworowska 1974
Averianov 1997
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan State/province:Ongtüstik Qazaqstan
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 68.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 62.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:236 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dabrazhin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Darbazin subformation = Darbasa = Dabrazhin
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "gray sandstones and sands"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: formation includes "terrestrial, brackish water and marine animals" (Averianov 1997), and the preponderance of shark teeth combined with rare terrestrial tetrapods at this site also suggests marginal marine environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:1440 kg
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1996
Collection method comments: "About 1440 kg" was "dry screened" in 1996 (Averianov 1997)
Taxonomic list comments:"nearly ten thousand shark teeth, more rare osteichthyan fish remains, crocodile, theropod and hadrosaurid teeth, very rare lizard and salamander remains" in addition to just "seven mammalian specimens" (Averianov 1997)
Metadata
Also known as:Kyrk-Kuduk, Alymtau; Grey Mesa
Database number:59730
Authorizer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy, D. Nicholson Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano, D. Nicholson, J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-10 12:23:39 Last modified:2019-06-25 09:27:45
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-10 12:23:39
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:

28808 A. O. Averianov. 1997. New Late Cretaceous mammals of southern Kazakhstan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42(2):243-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
49973 A. O. Averianov. 2002. Review of Mesozoic and Cenozoic sea turtles from the former USSR. Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2):137-154 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]
23626ETE A. O. Averianov and H.-D. Sues. 2007. A new troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan, with a review of troodontid records from the territories of the former Soviet Union. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):87-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
39421 G. W. Storrs and M. B. Efimov. 2000. Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 402-419 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]