Askazan-sor (Miocene of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (45.1° N, 68.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 67.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: In addition to listed species, there are listed "small cud-chewing mammmals"

Primary reference: B. A. Trofimov. 1949. Drevneishiy Predstavitel Primitivnykh Svinei v Asii. Title Tranlated: The Earliest Specimen of Primitive Swine in Asia. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 47(1):145-148 [J. Hunter/D. Ehrenburg/J. Hunter]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 39881: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Dina Ehrenburg on 10.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Hemimeryx sp. Lydekker 1883 anthracothere
Brachyodus sp. Depéret 1895 anthracothere