Tsagan Hushu [Naran Bulak Fm.] [PMPE] (Paleocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Tsagan Khushu; Tsagan-Khushu

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 100.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 91.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhigden Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Zhigden Member also spelt as Zhygden Member

•Note that the avian material (and thus possibly some of the mammalian material) is collected from a mixed assemblage of the Naran and Zhygden Members - both are Late Paleocene (Kurochkin and Dyke 2010)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PMPE III in 1965

• This area originally collected by the Polish-Mongolian expeditions, and subsequently by teams from PIN.

Primary reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1966. Third (1965) Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition to the Gobi Desert and western Mongolia. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Cl. II 14(4):249-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.02.2004, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Will Clyde and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Dinocerata -
Dinocerata indet. Marsh 1872 uintathere
 Didymoconida -
Archaeoryctes euryalis n. sp.3 Lopatin 2001 eutherian
PIN, no. 3104/292 - type (almost complete skull with canines and two series of cheek teeth)
 Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Pinoryctes collector n. gen. n. sp.4, Jarveia erronea n. sp.4
Pinoryctes collector n. gen. n. sp.4 Lopatin 2006 eutherian
PIN 3104/830 - holotype
Jarveia erronea n. sp.4 Kondrashov et al. 2004 eutherian
PIN 3104/434 - type
 Pantodonta -
 Cimolesta - Sarcodontidae
Hyracolestes ermineus4 Matthew and Granger 1925 eutherian
PIN 3104/772
Sarcodon pygmaeus7 Matthew and Granger 1925 eutherian
PIN 3104/771
 Placentalia -
Notoungulata indet. Roth 1903 notoungulate
 Insectivora -
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran
 Acreodi - Hapalodectidae
Hapalodectes dux n. sp.2 Lopatin 2001 condylarth
listed as coming from "Tsagan-Khiushu; Upper Paleocene, Naran Bulak Formation, Zhigden Member"
Hapalodectes paradux n. sp.5 Lopatin 2023 condylarth
PIN, no. 3104/775 - type
 Theriamorpha - Geolabididae
Gobigeolabis verigranum n. gen. n. sp.4
Gobigeolabis verigranum n. gen. n. sp.4 Lopatin 2004 placental
PIN 3104/776 - holotype; referred specimen: PIN 3107/800
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Praolestes maximus n. sp.4 Kondrashov et al. 2004 placental
PIN 3104/363 - type
Praolestes nanus4 Matthew et al. 1929 placental
PIN 3104/360-362, 427 and 433
 Placentalia -
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885 placental
 Rodentia - Alagomyidae
Tribosphenomys secundus n. sp.6 Lopatin and Averianov 2004 rodent
type locality; listed in Lopatin and Averianov as "Tsagan-Khushu, Mongolia: Zhigden Member of the upper Naran-Bulak Formation, latest Paleocene" This record may equal Lagomorpha indet. of ref. 9902
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate
Aves
 Anseriformes - Presbyornithidae
Presbyornithidae indet.1 Wetmore 1926 waterfowl
PIN specimens (coracoids, scapulae, humeri, ulnae, carpometacarpii, phalanx and femora)
Presbyornis mongoliensis1 Kurochkin and Dyke 2010 waterfowl
PIN 3104-24 (distal end of left tarsometatarsus) and PIN 3104-6 (distal end of right tarsometatarsus)