Loh, near camp (Miocene of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 100.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Loh Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green claystone

• "upper olive clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Shackleford in 1922; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1924. Serridentinus and Baluchitherium, Loh Formation, Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 148:1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137619: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Serridentinus mongoliensis n. sp.
Serridentinus mongoliensis n. sp. Osborn 1924 gomphothere
AMNH 19152 (= field no. 71)