Ulantatal (UTL3) (Oligocene of China)

Also known as Ulan II

Where: Nei Mongol, China (39.2° N, 105.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 102.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ulantatal Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Ulan II (late Oligocene)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone and siltstone

• Fine grained sandstones and siltstones

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1987; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: H. Gomes Rodrigues, L. Marivaux, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2012. The Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Ulantatal area (Inner Mongolia, China): New data concerning the evolution of Asian cricetids during the Oligocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 56:160-179 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175407: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon "sp. 1" Thaler 1966 rodent
IVPP V17647.1
Eucricetodon asiaticus Matthew and Granger 1923 rodent
IVPP V17624
Eucricetodon bagus Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V17638
Eucricetodon jilantaiensis Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V17631
Witenia yolua n. sp. Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V17654.1 - type
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Huangomys frequens1 Schmidt-Kittler et al. 2007 gundi
Tataromys minor3 Huang 1985 gundi
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
? Gobiosminthus sp.2 Huang 1992 jumping mouse
IVPP V10308
Shamosminthus tongi2 Huang 1992 jumping mouse
IVPP V10312
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus asiaecentralis2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10131 and V10132
Parasminthus tangingoli2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10151
"Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10158