Maelestes type locality, Ukhaa Tolgod: Late/Upper Campanian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cimolestidae
Maelestes gobiensis n. gen., n. sp. Wible et al. 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 100.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 90.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Djadokhta
Stratigraphy comments: "Recent age estimates of the Djadokhta Formation are 75-71 million years" (i.e., late Campanian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: lithology unclear but definitely lithified and siliciclastic based on figured specimen
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:remaining fauna not discussed
Metadata
Also known as:Between Camel Humps and Sugar Mountain
Database number:87870
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-26 19:51:52 Last modified:2009-03-26 21:51:52
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-26 19:51:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29530. J. R. Wible, G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek and R. J. Asher. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature 447:1003-1006 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]