Also known as Issyk-Kul

Where: Kyrgyzstan (42.5° N, 76.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 70.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chonkurchak Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Chonkurchak Svita

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Martin-Luther- University Halle (Germany), the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Seismological Institute in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1997 and 1998

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: J. Erfurt and A. Averianov. 2006. Mammals of the Eocene locality Toru Ajgyr (Kyrgyzstan). Palaeovertebrata 34(3-4):207-257 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177051: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.03.2016

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