Also known as Wulanboerhe

Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.4° N, 110.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 103.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Bumbanian to Bumbanian (55.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• fossil were found from a "bed" within a "7.5 m thick" unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red, sandy, calcareous claystone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002; reposited in the IVPP

• locality discovered in 2002

Primary reference: J. Meng, G. J. Bowen, J. Ye, P. L. Koch, S. Ting, Q. Li, and X. Jin. 2004. Gomphos elkema (Glires, Mammalia) from the Erlian Basin: evidence for the early Tertiary Bumbanian Land Mammal Age in Nei-Mongol, China. 3425:1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72205: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.05.2007

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