Also known as 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: Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

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

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180953: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2016, edited by Pauline Coster

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