Kalmakpay: Turolian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Boidae
Eryx sp. Daudin 1803
Vasilyan et al. 2017
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803
Vasilyan et al. 2017
“small sized” (=? Anguis sp. “large sized”)
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820
Vasilyan et al. 2017
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Mammalia - Cervidae
Procapreolus latifrons Schlosser 1924
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragocerus sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Indarctos sp. Pilgrim 1913
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Vormela sp. Blasius 1884
Plesiogulo crassa Teilhard de Chardin 1945
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaenictitherium hyaenoides orlovi
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 47.0° North, 84.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.0° North, 83.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Turolian
Age range of interval: 8.725 - 5.09 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Late Turolian, Upper Miocene, Santash Suite, MN13.
'The Kalmakpay fauna occurs in the reddish brown sandy clays of the Karabulak suite in the Zaisan depression that is a correlative unit of the upper part of the Santash suite in southern Kazakhstan. The Santash suite, developed in the piedmont depressions of Northern TIen Shan Mountains, is represented by reddish brown clays and ill-sorted siltstones with interlayers of sandstones and marls.'
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: reddish brown sandy clays
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34436
Authorizer:A. Turner, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-01 03:55:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-01 03:55:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
9043.PACED M.V. Sotnikova, A.E. Dodonov, and A.V. Pen'kov. 1997. Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133:243-258 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

62113 D. Vasilyan, V. S. Zazhigin, and M. Bohme. 2017. Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekkota, Lacertilia, and Testudines) from the south of Western Siberia, Russia, and Northeastern Kazakhstan. PeerJ [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]