Ulan-Khureh (Oligocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Ulan Khureh

Where: Mongolia (45.4° N, 101.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 98.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Joint Soviet–Mongolian Paleontological Expedition (Reshetov) in 1979-1980; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1997. New Oligocene Didymoconidae (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 31(1):108-119 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174649: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Scymnerix tartareus n. gen. n. sp.
Scymnerix tartareus n. gen. n. sp. Lopatin 2003 hedgehog
PIN, no. 3106/80 - holotype (skull with the lower jaws)
 Didymoconida -
Archaeomangus ulanhureensis n. gen. n. sp. Lopatin 1997 eutherian
PIN, no. 3106/100 - holotype (fragment of the right ramus of the lower jaw with P2–M2)