Also known as East Mesa; Shara Murun

Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.2° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 107.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Central Asiatic Expedition in 1928; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: T. J. Gaudin, R. J. Emry, and B. Pogue. 2006. A new genus and species of pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Late Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):146-159 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61229: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.05.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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