Tieersihabahe section (XJ 98035) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.7° N, 88.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 86.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "on the top of the 'Ulunguhe' Formation"

•Tieersihabahe faunal assemblage Zone I

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1998-1999; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: S. Bi, J. Meng, S. McLean, W. Wu, X. Ni and J. Ye. 2013. A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. PLoS ONE 8(1):e52625:1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176391: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus asiaticus n. sp.1 Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003 jumping mouse
IVPP V12724 - holotype
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliruloides zhoui n. gen. n. sp.2
Gliruloides zhoui n. gen. n. sp.2 Wu et al. 2016 dormouse
IVPP V 18110.1 - holotype
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Proansomys dureensis n. gen. n. sp.
Proansomys dureensis n. gen. n. sp. Bi et al. 2013 mountain beaver
IVPP V18534 - holotype and referred specimens
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Asianeomys junggarensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Asianeomys junggarensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Wu et al. 2006 rodent
IVPP V 14452 - holotype