Rodents of the middle Eocene Shinzhaly fauna of Eastern Kazakstan

Robert J. Emry, Lyubov A. Tyutkova, Spencer G. Lucas, Banyue Wang

1998

Closed access Metadata (CSL-JSON)
DOI 10.1080/02724634.1998.10011045
Data confidence 70 medium
How this score is calculated

It is built from checkable properties of the record itself: whether the article has a DOI, how many independent sources confirmed its data, whether the required fields are filled in, and how recent the latest confirmation is. Disagreement between sources and a missing identifier lower it. A value of 80 or above means the record was published without further checking; 60 to 79 means it is published at reduced confidence, with a manual check advisable. A record verified by an editor by hand is never pushed below 90 by a recalculation. This scores our data about the article, not the article itself.

Abstract

Fossil mammals of the Shinzhaly fauna occur in the Kolpak Formation, a sequence of Paleogene red beds exposed along the Shinzhaly River in Eastern Kazakstan. Most of the fossils are concentrated in a single bed 0.3 m thick. Screen washing of sediment from this bed has yielded small mammals, including several species of rodents: a zapodid, Aksyiromys dalos; two cricetids, Pappocricetodon kazakstanicus, sp. nov. and Zhungaromys gromovi, gen. et sp. nov.; and a chapattimyid, Saykanomys sp., cf. S. bohlini. Temporal correlation indicated by the rodents is in agreement with the middle Eocene (Irdinmanhan) age indicated by perissodactyls previously described from the Shinzhaly fauna.