Transaltai area of Gobi region (Carboniferous of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (45.5° N, 96.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 59.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Upper Carboniferous?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. A. Astaf'yeva-Urbaytis. 1981. The genus Exochorhynchus from the upper Paleozoic deposits in the USSR and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 15:29-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124764: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Exochorhynchus mongolensis n. sp. Astaf'yeva-Urbaytis 1981 clam