South Gobi mammalian fossil locality (Section B) (Eocene of China)

Also known as Kalabulegen Town

Where: Xinjiang, China (47.2° N, 89.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 82.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Early Eocene Bumbanian Asian Land Mammal Age (ALMA)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; concretionary mudstone

• concretion-rich mudstone layer

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: X. Ni, Q. Li, T. A. Stidham, L. Li, X. Lu and J. Meng. 2016. A late Paleocene probable metatherian (?deltatheroidan) survivor of the Cretaceous mass extinction. Scientific Reports 6:38547:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183274: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Tamquammys robustus Li and Meng 2015 rodent