Also known as Shara Murun
Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.0° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 105.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shara Murum Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• type locality for the Shara Murum Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone and brown claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. F. Johnson in & September 1923; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1936. Amynodon mongoliensis from the Upper Eocene of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 859:1-5 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174962: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.12.2015, edited by David Nicholson and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudo sharanensis n. sp.1 Yeh 1965 turtle Holotype IVPP V 2868 and paratype IVPP V 2868. Listed as "Ula Usu Formation?"
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Pterodon hyaenoides n. sp.3
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Olsenia mira n. gen. n. sp.3
Olsenia mira n. gen. n. sp.3 Matthew and Granger 1925 condylarth AMNH 20303 - type; referred specimen: AMNH 20319
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"Amynodon mongoliensis n. sp." = Sharamynodon mongoliensis
"Amynodon mongoliensis n. sp." = Sharamynodon mongoliensis Osborn 1936 odd-toed ungulate AMNH 20278 - type; referred specimens: AMNH 20279, 20282-20284
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"Caenolophus minimus n. sp." = Rhodopagus minimus3
"Caenolophus minimus n. sp." = Rhodopagus minimus3 Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate AMNH 20310 - type
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Deperetella cristata n. gen. n. sp.3
Deperetella cristata n. gen. n. sp.3 Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate AMNH 20290 - type; paratypes: AMNH 20291, 20292, 20294, 20295 and 20305
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Archaeomeryx optatus n. gen. n. sp.3
Archaeomeryx optatus n. gen. n. sp.3 Matthew and Granger 1925 ruminant AMNH 20311 - type; paratypes: AMNH 20320-20322
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