Also known as Navrukho, Kuruksai
Where: Tajikistan (38.3° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 69.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Kuruksai suite Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Middle Villafranchian, Late Pliocene, MN17. Below the Olduvai Subchron in the lower part of the Matuyama Chron. At the top of the Kuruksay/Kuruksai suite. There are 4 layers at the site - the three lowest are conglomerates and aleurites belonging to the Kuruksai suite (the bone bed is the second of these layers). The topmost bed is largely loessic clay and belongs to the Kairubak suite.
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone and conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Two localities have been excavated - Kuruksai-Navrukho and Kuruksai-Lagernaya. This is probably the faunal list from Navrukho.
•The locality was discovered in 1962.
Primary reference: M.V. Sotnikova, A.E. Dodonov, and A.V. Pen'kov. 1997. Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133:243-258 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34444: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841 rhinoceros | |
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"Sogdianotherium kuruksaense" = Mitilanotherium, Sivatherium sp.
"Sogdianotherium kuruksaense" = Mitilanotherium giraffe
Sivatherium sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 giraffe | |
Antilospira sp., Gazellospira gromovae, Gazella parasinensis, Damalops palaeindicus, Protoryx paralaticeps, Protoryx sp.
Antilospira sp. Teilhard de Jardin and Young 1931 antelope
Gazellospira gromovae antelope
Gazella parasinensis gazelle
Damalops palaeindicus antelope
Protoryx paralaticeps antelope
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope | |
Sinomegaceros tadzhikistanica, Elaphurus eleonorae, Eucladoceros sp., Axis flerovi, Libralces cf. gallicus
Elaphurus eleonorae Pere David's deer
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer
Axis flerovi deer
Libralces cf. gallicus Azzaroli 1952 deer | |
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear | |
"Canis" kuruksaensis canine
Nyctereutes megamastoides Pomel 1842 raccoon dog | |
Lynx ex gr. issiodorensis, Acinonyx cf. pardinensis, Megantereon megantereon, Homotherium crenatidens
Lynx ex gr. issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx
Acinonyx cf. pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 cheetah
Megantereon megantereon Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890 cat | |
Pliocrocuta perrieri Kretzoi 1938 hyaena | |
Hystrix trofimovi porcupine | |
Ellobius sp. Fischer 1814 mole-vole | |
Papio suschkini baboon |