Nomogen Ora (SSPE) (Eocene of China)

Also known as Nom Khong Shireh locality

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.0° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 105.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 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 28790: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Perissodactyla indet. Owen 1848 odd-toed ungulate
"other perissodactyls"
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiodontidae indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae Osborn 1923 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontidae indet. Scott and Osborn 1883 odd-toed ungulate
 Placentalia -
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate
"small artiodactyls"