Urtyn Obo (Ulan Gochu) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.6° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 107.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ulan Gochu Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. G. Danilov, V. B. Sukhanov, and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2011. New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):101-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189018: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 27.09.2017, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
IPPV V 2875, shell fragments
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle