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A revision of Late Oligocene associations of small mammals from the Aral Formation (Kazakhstan) in the National Museum of Georgia, Tbilissi
The taxonomy and age of the small mammals from the type area of the Aral Formation have been disputed ever
since the first specimens from Akespe were published by Argyropulo in 1939. The material from Altyn Schokysu,
Sayaken, Akespe and Akotau dicussed below was collected by the first author (OGB) during the second half of the
twentieth century and published in Russian in 1993. The revision of the fauna from the Aral Formation suggests a
biostratigraphical correlation with the radiometrically calibrated Oligocene zone C/C` in Mongolia defined by
Daxner-Höck. Hence the original assignment of the Aral fauna to the Late Oligocene (Tabenbulukian) is considered
to be correct