Where: Turkmenistan (39.2° N, 54.6° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.0° N, 54.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)
• Partial elephant skeleton buried in a remnant of a terrace deposit of the Palaeo-Amudarya. Latest Early Pleistocene to Early Middle Pleistocene (based on elephant morphology).
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: I. A. Dubrovo and A. N. Nigarov. 1990. Plio-Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrate Localities of South-Western Turkmenia, U.S.S.R. Quatarpalaontologie 8:35-45 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 40689: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 28.06.2004
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