Also known as Öösh, Osh, Ashile, Oshih Nur
Where: Ovorkhangai, Mongolia (44.9° N, 102.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 104.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cannonball Member (Oshih Formation), Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 125.8 Ma)
• Oshih, Cannonball Member of Oshih Formation of Berkey and Morris (1927), possibly equivalent of Tevsh Formation (Undurukhin), Valanginian-Neocomian (Samiolov et al., 1988).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mongolian-American Expedition in 1997
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek, M. C. McKenna and J. R. Wible. 2001. Gobiconodonts from the Early Cretaceous of Oshih (Ashile), Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3348:1-30 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119463: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.10.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Gobiconodon hopsoni n. sp. Rougier et al. 2001 mammal PSS-MAE 140 (holotype R maxailla), and PSS-MAE 139 (R mandible)
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