Also known as Naran Bulak; Paramongolemys khosatzkyi type; Khaychin; Haichin Ula; Khaichin
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: Naran Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• Lower part of Naran Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Joint Soviet–Mongolian Paleontological Expedition in 1976; reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: I. G. Danilov and V. B. Sukhanov. 2013. A new basal testudinoid turtle (Testudinoidea: “Lindholmemydidae”) from the Upper Paleocene of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 47(1):104-113 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140333: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paramongolemys khosatzkyi n. gen. n. sp.
Paramongolemys khosatzkyi n. gen. n. sp. Danilov and Sukhanov 2013 turtle PIN 5464/1 - holotype (incomplete shell comprising the right posterior part of the carapace, carapace fragments in the region of the nuchal and costal I plates, left bridge part of the plastron, and fragments of the anterior lobe of plastron are lost)
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