Taatsiin Gol West, TGW-A/2b (Oligocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Valley of Lakes

Where: Mongolia (45.4° N, 101.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 99.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Biozone C sensu Höck et al. 1999

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: O. Maridet, G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav and U. B. Göhlich. 2015. The eomyid rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89:207-228 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180972: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Aralocricetodon schokensis3 Bendukidze 1993 rodent
NHMW2015/0541/0001-2
Eucricetodon jilantaiensis4 Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
Eucricetodon bagus4 Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
Bagacricetodon tongi3 Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
NHMW2015/ 0318/0001-24; previously referred to Eucricetodon bagus
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
cf. Asianeomys bolligeri Lopatin 2000 rodent
NHMW 2013/0064/0001-0007
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus cf. tangingoli1 Bohlin 1946 rodent
NHMW 2013/0194/0001
Heosminthus sp.1 Wang 1985 rodent
NHMW 2013/0171/0001–0003
Bohlinosminthus parvulus1 Bohlin 1946 rodent
NHMW 2013/0211/0000
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Tataromys sigmodon6 Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
NHMW 2006z106/0001
Tataromys minor longidens6 Schmidt-Kittler et al. 2007 gundi
NHMW 2006z100/0004
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Proansomys badamae5 Maridet et al. 2017 mountain beaver
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus cf. chinensis2 Erbajeva and Sen 1998 rabbit
NHMW2013/0334
Desmatolagus gobiensis2 Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
NHMW2013/0320