Scientists were able to recreate the paleoenvironment at the time of the commencement of sedimentation in the Gusinoozersk Basin during the deposition of the Murtoi Fm based on fossils discovered at the Mogoito location.

The Mogoito locality exposes strata from the Murtoi Fm through a sequence of naturally occurring outcrops in shallow ravines and scours on the western edge of Lake Gusinoe.

Petrified wood remnants and rare fragmented dinosaur fossils can be found in the lower alluvial-proluvial Murtoi section of the Mogoito locality.

It is impossible to rule out the idea that crocodyliforms did not make it into the paleontological record, but the most plausible explanation for this is the relatively chilly environment, which is unsuitable for them.

But in the Mogoito locality, the lack of crocodyliforms and the existence of turtles and choristoderes point to a temperate environment with an annual mean temperature that is far above freezing but still below 14°C.