Ulantatal (UTL7) (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 175411: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Argyromys cicigei3 López-Guerrero et al. 2017 rodent
IVPP V17653.1
Eucricetodon "sp. 2" Thaler 1966 rodent
IVPP V17648.1
Eucricetodon asiaticus Matthew and Granger 1923 rodent
IVPP V17627
Eucricetodon bagus Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V17641
Eucricetodon jilantaiensis Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V17634
Cricetops dormitor Matthew and Granger 1923 rodent
IVPP V17660.1-2
Witenia yolua Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
IVPP V 17656
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys ulantatalensis4 Huang 1985 gundi
Yindirtemys shevyrevae n. sp.4 Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006 gundi
UTL7-86 - type
Huangomys frequens1 Schmidt-Kittler et al. 2007 gundi
Tataromys sigmodon4 Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
Tataromys minor4 Huang 1985 gundi
Tataromys plicidens4 Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
? Gobiosminthus sp.1 Huang 1992 jumping mouse
Gobiosminthus qiui n. gen. n. sp.2 Huang 1992 jumping mouse
IVPP V10167 - holotype
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus asiaecentralis2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10135 and V10136
Parasminthus tangingoli2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10155 and V10156
"Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V10162 and V10163