Where: Mongolia (45.1° N, 101.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 100.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Khunuk Formation, Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• Relativley undisturbed buff to grey coloured beds outcropped around the camp. 'Superimposed on older deposits assigned to the Hsanda Gol Formation these sediments seemed homogeneous to the field party and were named collectively the Khunuk Formation.' Fossils were collected from three separate localities, which may or may not be of the same date so thay have been designated A, B and C'. One specimen was found at site B, which was discovered on July 1st and is '5 to 8 miles North' of Site A.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: L.J. Flynn and R. L. Bernor. 1987. Late Tertiary mammals from the Mongolian People's Republic. American Museum Novitates 2872:1-16 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34486: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 03.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Elephantoidea indet. Gray 1821 proboscidean |