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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Lophiodontidae indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate | |
Amynodontidae indet. Scott and Osborn 1883 odd-toed ungulate | |
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae Osborn 1923 odd-toed ungulate | |
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere |