Balabansai IV: Early Campanian, Kyrgyzstan
collected 1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Nessov 1995
eggshells
see common names

Geography
Country:Kyrgyzstan State/province:Jalal-Abad
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 72.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° North, 71.9° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Early Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nichkesai
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the Nichkesai Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "clays with gravel and sand"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Feeding/predation traces:gastric dissolution
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1984
Metadata
Database number:59600
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-04 14:34:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-04 14:34:31
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67978. L. A. Nessov and M. N. Kaznyshkin. 1986. Obnaruzheniye v SSSR tolshchi s ostatkami yaits Rannemelovykh i Pozdnemelovykh dinozavrov [Discovery in the USSR of a stratum with remains of eggs of Early Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous dinosaurs]. Biologicheskiye Nauka 9:35-49 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

16510ETE 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]