Kiikbai: Pliocene, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys pliocaenicus (Forsyth Major 1889)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 77.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 76.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pliocene, Middle Villafranchian, MN17. Ilian suite.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'Motley coloured clays with interbedding of sandstones and marls.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34440
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-01 05:49:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-01 05:49:01
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]