Where: Mongolia (48.3° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 92.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN14-15 zone, Khirgisnur Formation, Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• "lower part of the Pliocene lacustrine section, level 0-9, ferruginous sands" (Sotnikova 2006)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; ferruginous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: M. Sotnikova. 2006. A new canid Nurocyon chonokhariensis gen. et sp. nov. (Canini, Canidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Mongolia. Courier-Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 256:11-21 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231013: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
Nurocyon chonokhariensis n. gen. n. sp.
Nurocyon chonokhariensis n. gen. n. sp. Sotnikova 2006 canine PIN 2737-257 (holotype), nearly complete skull with right M1 and M2, posterior portion of P4 and P2
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Stylodipus perfectus n. sp.
Stylodipus perfectus n. sp. Zazhigin and Lopatin 2001 three-toed jerboa | |