Where: South Gobi Aimag, Mongolia (44.1° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 102.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mogotuin Suite Group, Cenozoic (66.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Based on the mammalian fossil assemblage, the red beds are con
•sidered to be Cenozoic. More detail and longer prospecting work for fossils in the area will provide rich mammalian fossil specimens. The application of magnetostratigraphy to the red beds with thickness over 30 meter will also give reasonable dating results of the fossiliferous red beds.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone and fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by HMNS-GIN in 2001
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, N. Ichinnorov and R. Barsbold. 2004. Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 2001. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 2:69-96 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 137861: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848 even-toed ungulate astragalus and distal end of tibia of a small sized artiodactyla
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