Also known as Khoer-Dzan
Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.0° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 106.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ergilin Member (Ergilin Dzo Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• AKA Ergiliin Zoo Formation (59640)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SMPE in 1988
• Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition
Primary reference: D. Dashzeveg and D. E. Russell. 1992. Extension of Dyspternine Pantolestidae (Mammalia, Cimolesta) in the Early Oligocene of Mongolia. Geobios 25(5):647-650 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174715: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.11.2015, edited by Pauline Coster and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ergiliinsaurus postumus n. gen. n. sp.1
Ergiliinsaurus postumus n. gen. n. sp.1 Alifanov 2012 squamates PIN, no. 4751/3 (holotype), fragment of left maxilla
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Mammalia | |
Gobiopithecus khan n. gen. n. sp.
Gobiopithecus khan n. gen. n. sp. Dashzeveg and Russell 1992 placental PSS 27-125 - holotype (right mandible)
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Ardynomys sp. Matthew and Granger 1925 rodent |