Where: Bayanhongor, Mongolia (46.5° N, 99.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 99.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• "[The fossils] come from a drill-hole made in relation to geological investigations in reddish-brown clay sands of the middle of the three alluvial Neogene sedimentary layers represented in the region between South Hangay and the Valley of Lakes... [The presence of Hipparion] suggests a Late Ruscinian age for all the fossils, although, on the grounds of the vertical extension of the sedimentary succession, an early Villafranchian age cannot be ruled out. Similar red sands exist in the upper part of the section of the early Villafranchian locality of Shamar in Northern Mongolia (E. Deviatkin pers. comm.; M. Sotnikova, pers. comm.)." (Spassov & Rook 2006)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria

Primary reference: N. Spassov and L. Rook. 2006. Eucyon marinae sp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora), a new canid species from the Pliocene of Mongolia, with a review of forms referable to the genus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 112(1):123-133 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230933: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 27.07.2023

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