Naran Bulak, Nemegt Depression (Paleocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Ernanodon referred specimen

Where: Mongolia (43.5° N, 100.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 91.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhigden Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Gashatan (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Late Paleocene

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1979; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: P. Kondrashov and A. K. Agadjanian. 2012. A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5):983-1001 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132936: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Ernanodon cf. antelios Ding 1979 placental
PIN 3102 - near complete skeleton
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Praolestes maximus Kondrashov et al. 2004 placental
PIN 3102/75
 Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae
Zhigdenia nemegetica n. gen. n. sp.
Zhigdenia nemegetica n. gen. n. sp. Lopatin 2006 placental
PIN 3107/431 - holotype; referred specimen: PIN 3107/799