Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.5° N, 111.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 102.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nomogen Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• apparently from throughout a unit about 11 m thick
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; green mudstone and white, yellow limestone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. Van Itterbeeck, P. Missiaen, A. Folie, V. S. Markevich, D. Van Damme, D.-Y. Guo, and T. Smith. 2007. Woodland in a fluvio-lacustrine environment on the dry Mongolian Plateau during the late Paleocene: Evidence from the mammal bearing Subeng section (Inner Mongolia, P.R. China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 243(1-2):55-78 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71074: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Quercites | |
Ginkgocycadophytus | |
Ginkgocycadophytus sp. Samoilovitch 1953 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953 | |
Angiospermae | |
Caryapollenites sp. Potonié 1960 | |
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953 | |
Triporopollenites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953 | |
Rubiaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 coffee | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Basopollis sp. Pflug 1953 | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites bilateralis Rouse 1959 | |
Cedripites | |
Sphagnaceae | |
Sphagnumsporites sp. Raatz 1956 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Cyathidites minor Couper 1953
Cyathidites australis Couper 1953 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946 | |
Leptolepidites verrucatus Couper 1953 | |
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis Potonie and Gelletich 1933
Klukisporites variegatus Couper 1958 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ephedripites sp. Bolkhovitina and Potonié 1958 | |
Parviprojectus | |
Parviprojectus sp. Mtchedlishvili 1961 | |
Plicatopollis plicatus | |
Plicatopollis plicatus Potonié 1934 |