Ergilin-Dzo (Sevkhul Member) (Eocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Ergilin Dzo, Ergiliin Zoo

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (43.8° N, 111.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 107.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sevkhul Member (Ergilin Dzo Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Joint Soviet–Mongolian Paleontological Expedition (Reshetov) in 1987; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1997. New Oligocene Didymoconidae (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 31(1):108-119 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174647: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Teleolophus magnus1 Radinsky 1965 tapir
PSS 21-36
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Oligochenus grandis n. gen. n. sp.2 Lopatin 2005 hedgehog
PIN, no. 3109/251 - holotype (right dentary fragment with P4 and M1)
Amphechinus sp.2 Aymard 1850 hedgehog
PIN, no. 3109/252 (left dentary)
 Didymoconida -
Ergilictis reshetovi n. gen. n. sp.
Ergilictis reshetovi n. gen. n. sp. Lopatin 1997 eutherian
PIN, no. 3109/247 - holotype (fragment of the right ramus of the lower jaw with P2–M2)