Ergil Obo (Ergilin Dzo sublocality) (Eocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Ergilin-Dzo

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (43.3° N, 109.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 104.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone

• Yellow sands

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Geological Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Science in 1989

Primary reference: D. Dashzeveg. 1996. Some Carnivorous Mammals from the Paleogene of Eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and the application of Oligocene carnivores to stratigraphic correlation. American Museum Novitates 3179:1-14 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174972: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.12.2015, edited by David Nicholson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus orientalis n. sp. Gilmore 1931 turtle
AMNH 6356
Mammalia
 Carnivora -
"Stenoplesictis simplex n. sp." = Asiavorator gracilis
"Stenoplesictis simplex n. sp." = Asiavorator gracilis Matthew and Granger 1924 carnivoran
PSS 27-25 - type