Also known as Gelaysor

Where: Ararat, Armenia (40.0° N, 44.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 44.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• The age of the deposit is dated as earliest Pliocene using small mammalian assemblage (Melik-Adamyan, 2003). However, these two species are absent in diatomite deposits from Sisian region (N. Ognjanova- Rumenova, pers. com. December 2011) of Pleistocene age (Joannin et al., 2010). This allows to date the age of diatomite deposit of Jradzor back to the Pliocene.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; diatomite

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Vasilyan and G. Carnevale. 2013. The Afro–Asian labeonine genus Garra Hamilton, 1822 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the Pliocene of Central Armenia: Palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 62:788-796 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219091: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.03.2021

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