Binagada asphalt lake (Shevchenko collection) (Pleistocene of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• According to the most recent study, the age of Binagada fossils is approximately 120,000–96,000 BP (Zubakov, 1999)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Shevchenko in 1963

• Repository: National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Primary reference: L. V. Gorobets and V. O. Yanenko. 2018. Late Pleistocene birds from Binagada (Azerbaijan) in collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine). Vestnik Zoologii 52:31-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193356: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes -
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus cachinnans Pallas 1811 Caspian gull
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Gallinago gallinago Linnaeus 1758 common snipe
Calidris pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Calidris cf. pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Calidris binagadensis Serebrovsky 1940 snipe
Calidris minuta Leisler 1812 little stint
Calidris cf. minuta Leisler 1812 little stint
"Limicola falcinellus" = Calidris falcinellus Pontoppidan 1763 broad-billed sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos Linnaeus 1758 common sandpiper
Lymnocryptes minimus Brünnich 1764 jack snipe
Tringa ochropus Linnaeus 1758 green sandpiper
Tringa erythropus Pallas 1764 spotted redshank
Tringa glareola Linnaeus 1758 wood sandpiper
Tringa cf. glareola Linnaeus 1758 wood sandpiper
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco peregrinus Tunstall 1771 Peregrine falcon
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus 1758 Common kestrel
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Haliaeetus albicilla Linnaeus 1758 white-tailed eagle
 Passeriformes - Fringillidae
Fringillidae indet. Vigors 1825 finch
 Passeriformes - Alaudidae
Alaudidae indet. Vigors 1825 lark
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831 black-necked grebe
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae "indet. 1" Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Anas crecca and Spatula querquedula
Anatidae "indet. 2" Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Anas acuta/Mareca strepera
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
Anas acuta Linnaeus 1758 northern pintail
Mareca cf. penelope Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian wigeon
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Perdix perdix Linnaeus 1758 grey partridge