Tavan Ovoony Deng, RHN-A/12 (Miocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Taatsiin Gol Area, Valley of Lakes; Huch Teeg

Where: Mongolia (45.5° N, 101.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 100.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Loh Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Biozone D sensu Höck et al. (1999)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siltstone and claystone

• Red silt

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

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 180966: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Ansomys "sp. 1"5
Ansomys "sp. 1"5 Qiu 1987 mountain beaver
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heterosminthus cf. firmus, Litodonomys lajeensis1, Heosminthus borrae1
Heterosminthus cf. firmus Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000 rodent
NHMW 2001z0037/0001/1-9
Litodonomys lajeensis1 Li and Qiu 1980 rodent
Heosminthus borrae1 Daxner-Höck et al. 2014 rodent
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus barsboldi2
Plesiosminthus barsboldi2 Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003 jumping mouse
NHMW2001z 0066/0001/1-6
 Rodentia - Distylomyidae
Prodistylomys sp.2, Distylomys sp.2
Prodistylomys sp.2 Wang and Qi 1989 rodent
Distylomys sp.2 Wang 1988 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Amphilagus magnus4, Sinolagomys gracilis3, Sinolagomys ulungurensis4
Amphilagus magnus4 Erbajeva 2013 pika
NHMW2013/0384
Sinolagomys gracilis3 Bohlin 1942 pika
NHMW 2016/ 0167/0001
Sinolagomys ulungurensis4 Tong 1989 pika
NHMW2013/0375
1Daxner-Höck et al. 2014; 2Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003; 3Erbajeva et al. 2017; 4Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014; 5Maridet et al. 2017