Shunkht badlands with redbeds (HMNS-GIN) ( of Mongolia)

Where: South Gobi Aimag, Mongolia (44.1° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 102.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mogotuin Suite Group, Cenozoic (66.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Based on the mammalian fossil assemblage, the red beds are con

•sidered to be Cenozoic. More detail and longer prospecting work for fossils in the area will provide rich mammalian fossil specimens. The application of magnetostratigraphy to the red beds with thickness over 30 meter will also give reasonable dating results of the fossiliferous red beds.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone and fine-grained sandstone

• The red beds consist of thick mudstone, intercalating sandstone and conglomerate layers. From the mudstone and fine sandstone, we found mammalian fossils. Caliche is abundantly developed in the mudstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 2001

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, N. Ichinnorov and R. Barsbold. 2004. Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 2001. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 2:69-96 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137861: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhinoceratoidea indet.
teeth and bone fragments of rhinocerotoids
Selenodontia sp.
teeth of small selenodont artiodactyla
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
Mammalia indet. mammal
an unidentified tooth fragment
 Placentalia -
Rodentia sp. Bowdich 1821 rodent
incisor and mandible of rodents
 Artiodactyla -
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848 even-toed ungulate
astragalus and distal end of tibia of a small sized artiodactyla
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
distal portion of metapodial of bovids
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
mandible of carnivores with teeth
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Fragments of turtle shell (thick carapace)