Where: Turkmenistan (39.5° N, 53.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 53.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene. Grey micaceous sands with clay pebbles and rather numerous bone remains with erosion traces lay above Bakinian and Early Khazarian (Cromerian-Holsteinian) deposits which are well dated by their molluscan fauna.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 40695: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 28.06.2004