Aral Sea: Late/Upper Oligocene, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Protolactaga borissiaki
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869
Steneofiber sp. Geoffroy 1833
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Schaubeumys aralensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Aralomys gigas
synonym of Tachyoryctoides
Eumysodon spurius Argyropulo 1939
Eumysodon orlovi Argyropulio 1939
synonym of Eumysodon spurius
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Schaubeumys woodi Argyropulo 1939
synonym of Argyromys aralensis
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Agispelagus simplex Argyropulo 1940
recombined as Desmatolagus simplex
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Palaeoscaptor acridens Matthew and Granger 1924
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium aralense
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Aralotherium prohorvi
Mammalia - Archaeomerycidae
? Miomeryx sp. Matthew and Granger 1925
Mammalia
? Prodremotherium sp. Filhol 1877
Mammalia - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomeryx sp. Pomel 1853
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo aralensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Chelonia aralis
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas oligocaena Tugarinov 1940
recombined as Dendrochen oligocaena
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 46.6° North, 61.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.4° North, 58.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:28.40000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:74900
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-04 16:40:35 Last modified:2007-09-04 19:40:35
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-04 16:40:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24838. E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]