Ergil Obo (Ergilin Dzo sublocality): Late/Upper Eocene, Mongolia
collected by Geological Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Science 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus orientalis n. sp. Gilmore 1931
Danilov et al. 2013
AMNH 6356
Mammalia - Carnivora
Stenoplesictis simplex n. sp. Dashzeveg 1996
synonym of Asiavorator gracilis
PSS 27-25 - type
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Dornogov
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 109.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.7° North, 104.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ergilin Dzo Member:Ergilin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Yellow sands
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Geological Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Science Collection dates:September 1989
Metadata
Also known as:Ergilin-Dzo
Database number:174972
Authorizer:P. Mannion, D. Nicholson Enterer:P. Mannion, D. Nicholson
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-12-01 07:42:17 Last modified:2016-01-22 09:11:11
Access level:the public Released:2015-12-01 07:42:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57193. D. Dashzeveg. 1996. Some Carnivorous Mammals from the Paleogene of Eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and the application of Oligocene carnivores to stratigraphic correlation. American Museum Novitates 3179:1-14 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

48403 I. G. Danilov, E. V. Syromyatnikova, P. P. Skutschas, T. M. Kodrul, and J. Jin. 2013. The first "true" Adocus (Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1071-1080 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]
57727 N. Egi, T. Tsubamoto, M. Saneyoshi, K. Tsogtbaatar, M. Watabe, B. Mainbayar, T. Chinzorig and P. Khatanbaatar. 2016. Taxonomic revisions on nimravids and small feliforms (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Upper Eocene of Mongolia. Historical Biology 28(1-2):105-119 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]