Tatal Gol, section TAT-C/3 (Oligocene of Mongolia)

Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 99.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: A mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Biozone A

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

• The fines of the Hsanda Gol Fm. are interpreted as eolian dust and playa sediments, deposited on an arid plain (Höck et al., 1999).
• The Hsanda Gol Fm. mainly consists of "brick red" poorly sorted mudstones (Höck et al., 1999).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: sieve

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 180973: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomys cf. orientalis
Eomys cf. orientalis Wang and Emry 1991 rodent
NHMW 2013/0054/0001
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon caducus, Eucricetodon asiaticus
Eucricetodon caducus Shevyreva 1967 mouse
Eucricetodon asiaticus Matthew and Granger 1923 mouse