Urtyn Obo (SSPE) (Eocene of China)

Also known as Erden Obo

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.6° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 104.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shara Murum Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• "Lithologically, the sediments here is an eastward extension of those of Ula Usu and Baron Sog."

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SSPE in 1959

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. Chow and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1960. Exploration in Inner Mongolia: a preliminary account of the 1959 field work of the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition (SSPE). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28789: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Embolotheriinae indet. Osborn 1929 brontothere
originally entered as "Embolotherinae indet."
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Urtinotherium incisivum n. gen. n. sp." = Urtinotherium intermedium1, "Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae
"Urtinotherium incisivum n. gen. n. sp." = Urtinotherium intermedium1 Chiu 1962 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V2769 - type
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae Osborn 1923 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontidae indet.3 Scott and Osborn 1883 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V3224
Cadurcodon sp.3 Kretzoi 1942 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V3222
 Artiodactyla - Entelodontidae
Entelodontidae indet., "Archaeotherium ordosius" = Entelodon ordosius2
Entelodontidae indet. Lydekker 1883 even-toed ungulate
"Archaeotherium ordosius" = Entelodon ordosius2 Young and Chow 1956 even-toed ungulate
IVPP V2926