Taatsiin Gol, section TGR-1564: Early/Lower Oligocene, Mongolia
collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project 1995-1997, 2001, 2004, 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heosminthus chimidae Daxner-Höck et al. 2014
Daxner-Höck et al. 2014
NHMW 2013/0139/0000
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Shamosminthus sodovis Daxner-Höck 2001
NHMW 2001z0034/0005/1-3
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Övörkhangai County:Baruunbayan-Ulan
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 101.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 98.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1430 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene Mammal zone: B
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:31.5 ± 1 to 28 ± 1 Ma (Ar/Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hsanda Gol
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Biozone B sensu Höck et al. (1999, Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges. 90, 83-125). Biozone B is sandwiched between two Basalt layers that were dated by means of 40Ar/39Ar method (see Höck et al., 1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Hsanda Gol Fm. mainly consists of "brick red" poorly sorted mudstones (Höck et al., 1999).
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: The fines of the Hsanda Gol Fm. are interpreted as eolian dust and playa sediments, deposited on an arid plain (Höck et al., 1999).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Collectors:joint Austrian-Mongolian project Collection dates:1995-1997, 2001, 2004, 2006
Metadata
Also known as:Valley of Lakes
Database number:180962
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-08-10 08:41:14 Last modified:2016-08-10 08:41:14
Access level:the public Released:2016-08-10 08:41:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60086. G. Daxner-Höck. 2001. New zapodids (Rodentia) from Oligocene-Miocene deposits in Mongolia. Part 1. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 81(2):359-389 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

62824 G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav, and O. Maridet. 2014. Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 116:131-214 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]