New material of mammal Coryphodontid found from the Erlian Basin of Nei Mongol
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 08:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Coryphodontids, are a group of extinct large herbivorous mammals widespread in Eurasia and North America from late Paleocene to middle Eocene, placed in the archaic, extinct order Pantodonta, and are among the most useful mammalian index fossils for stratigraphic correlations in North America. In Asia, however, they are rarely applied to strata correlation because of taxonomic confusion and misinterpretation of the lithostratigraphy of the fossil-bearing units.