Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.4° N, 111.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 107.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Qingshuiying Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• JA: said by the authors to be late Oligocene, but unquestionably no younger than late Eocene based on presence of brontothere
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red sandstone and siltstone
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 28780: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 24.02.2003
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