ammonites
Ulaan Tologoi (Miocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Wild Ass Camp

Where: Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 100.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Loh Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• "occupies an interval in the Shanwangian (early Miocene) and is earlier than the middle Miocene Tung Gur"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; argillaceous, silty, conglomeratic sandstone

• formation "consists of cross-bedded sands and gravels mixed with silt and clay of both fluvial and aeolian origin"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. C. McKenna in 1991, 1994

Primary reference: T. Rothwell. 2004. Chapter 12: New felid material from the Ulaan Tologoi Locality, Loh Formation (early Miocene) of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 285(1):157-165 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85060: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.11.2008

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