Tsagaan Khushuu (PIN collection 3104) (Eocene of Mongolia)

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 100.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 92.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bumban Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. B. Efimov. 1983. Obzor iskopayemykh krokodilov Mongolii [Overview of the fossil crocodiles of Mongolia]. Fossil Reptiles of Mongolia. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya, Trudy [The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions] 24:76-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114685: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 20.08.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Strigiformes - Protostrigidae
Eostrix tsaganica n. sp.1 Kurochkin and Dyke 2011 owl
PIN 3104/129, 147, 801
 Gruiformes -
Bumbanipes aramoides n. gen. n. sp.2, Bumbaniralla walbeckornithoides n. gen. n. sp.2
Bumbanipes aramoides n. gen. n. sp.2 Zelenkov 2021 bird
Bumbaniralla walbeckornithoides n. gen. n. sp.2 Zelenkov 2021 bird
 Galliformes -
Bumbanortyx transitoria n. gen. n. sp.2, Bumbanipodius magnus n. gen. n. sp.2
Bumbanortyx transitoria n. gen. n. sp.2 Zelenkov 2021 fowl
Bumbanipodius magnus n. gen. n. sp.2 Zelenkov 2021 fowl
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Tzaganosuchus infansis n. gen. n. sp.
Tzaganosuchus infansis n. gen. n. sp. Efimov 1983 crocodile
PIN 3104-7