Also known as TGL-A/11a, Valley of Lakes

Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.4° N, 101.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 98.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: B mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project in 1995-1997, 2001, 2004, 2006; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: M. Böhme. 2007. 3. Herpetofauna (Anura, Squamata) and palaeoclimatic implications: preliminary results. In G. Daxner-Höck (ed.), Oligocene-Miocene Vertebrates from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia): Morphology, phylogenetic and stratigraphic implications. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A:43-52 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135791: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 09.11.2012, edited by Philip Mannion and Pauline Coster

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