Also known as Ashutas Mountain
Where: East Kasakhstan, Kazakhstan (48.0° N, 85.4° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 84.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Akzhar Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• "Early Miocene (Akzharsky suite)" (Zerova 1992)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: G. A. Zerova. 1992. Vipera (Daboia) ukrainica – a new viper (Serpentes; Viperidae) from the Middle Sarmatian (Upper Miocene) of the Ukraine. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 184(2):235-249 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167805: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 03.04.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Bufonidae indet. Gray 1825 toad | |
Reptilia | |
Protestudo alba turtle | |
Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758 slow worm | |
Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa | |
"Pelias sp." = Vipera (Pelias), ? Vipera (Daboia) sp.
"Pelias sp." = Vipera (Pelias) Merrem 1820 pit viper
? Vipera (Daboia) sp. Gray 1842 oriental viper fragmentary vertebra(e), "large viper of Vipera xanthina size [...], but this find may also be attributed to the subfamily Crotalinae"
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