Naran-Bulag (Naran Member) (Paleocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Naran Bulak; Naran Bulag

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 100.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 91.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naran Member (Naran Bulak Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• grey lacustrine sandy clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Joint Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expedition led by V. Yu. Reshetov in 1970, 1971; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: N. V. Zelenkov. 2019. A swan-sized anseriform bird from the late Paleocene of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39:e1531879:1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199896: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes -
Naranbulagornis khun n. gen. n. sp.
Naranbulagornis khun n. gen. n. sp. Zelenkov 2019 waterfowl
PIN 3102/74 - holotype