Also known as Tsagan Khushu; Tsagan-Khushu

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 100.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 91.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhigden Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Zhigden Member also spelt as Zhygden Member

•Note that the avian material (and thus possibly some of the mammalian material) is collected from a mixed assemblage of the Naran and Zhygden Members - both are Late Paleocene (Kurochkin and Dyke 2010)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PMPE III in 1965

• This area originally collected by the Polish-Mongolian expeditions, and subsequently by teams from PIN.

Primary reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1966. Third (1965) Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition to the Gobi Desert and western Mongolia. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Cl. II 14(4):249-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.02.2004, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Will Clyde and Philip Mannion

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