Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.0° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 105.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shara Murum Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SSPE in 1959
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: M. Chow and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1960. Exploration in Inner Mongolia: a preliminary account of the 1959 field work of the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition (SSPE). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28792: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003, edited by Philip Mannion and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Acrotitan ulanshirehensis n. gen. n. sp.5, Desmatotitan tukhumensis5, Microtitan mongoliensis5, "Epimanteoceras formosus" = Epimanteoceras formosus5, "Dolichorhinoides angustidens" = Epimanteoceras formosus5, Protitan bellus5
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"Forstercooperia cf. grandis" = Hyrachyus grandis5
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"Rhodopagus pygmaeus n. sp." = Rhodopagus minimus2 Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate AMNH 81859 - type; referred material: AMNH 20330-20350, 20390-20394, 26112, 26114 and 81860
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"Simplaletes ulanshirehensis n. sp." = Schlosseria magister3, ? Zhongjianoletes sp.5, Zhongjianoletes chowi n. gen. n. sp.5, Lophialetes ? expeditus5
"Simplaletes ulanshirehensis n. sp." = Schlosseria magister3 Matthew and Granger 1926 odd-toed ungulate IVPP V 6059 - type; referred material: IVPP V 6060
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Yuomys weijingensis n. sp.5
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
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Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |