Adrasman quarry (Permian of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (40.6° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 67.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rotliegendes (298.9 - 254.0 Ma)

• The author relates that the finds come form a pack of sediments interposed between vulcanic rocks on the southern flank of Sarytaipan Mountain.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; poorly lithified, fine-grained, black, gray, green, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• The author states that most of the collection consisted of skeleton impressions. There were also some skulls and a shoulder girdle.

Primary reference: L. P. Tatarinov. 1964. Novoe mestonakhozhdenie permskikh seimuriamorfov v SSSR [A new locality of Permian seymouriamorphs in the USSR]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1964(1):139-141 [J. Hunter/D. Ehrenburg/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38320: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Dina Ehrenburg on 20.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The taxonomic list is based on the skulls and the impressions in this collection.
unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Seymouriamorpha - Discosauriscidae
Ariekanerpeton indet. Ivakhnenko 1981 tetrapod