PBDB Collection

Tatal Gol, section TAT-055 (Oligocene of Mongolia)

Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 100.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Biozone C

• 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: G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav, and O. Maridet. 2015. Evolution of Tachyoryctoidinae (Rodentia, Mammalia): evidences of the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 117:161-195 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182075: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.10.2016, edited by Pauline Coster

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae	Tataromys minor², Tataromys sigmodon², Tataromys plicidens² Tataromys minor² Huang 1985 gundi Tataromys sigmodon² Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi Tataromys plicidens² Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
Rodentia - Bathyergidae	Tsaganomys altaicus² Tsaganomys altaicus² Matthew and Granger 1923 mole rat
Rodentia - Zapodidae	Shamosminthus sodovis², Shamosminthus tongi¹ Shamosminthus sodovis² Daxner-Höck 2001 jumping mouse Shamosminthus tongi¹ Huang 1992 jumping mouse NHMW 2013/0251/0001
Rodentia - Dipodidae	Heosminthus sp.¹, Heosminthus chimidae¹, Heosminthus borrae¹, "Allosminthus minutus" = Heosminthus minutus¹ Heosminthus sp.¹ Wang 1985 rodent NHMW 2013/0172/0001–0004 Heosminthus chimidae¹ Daxner-Höck et al. 2014 rodent NHMW 2013/0156/0001–0020 Heosminthus borrae¹ Daxner-Höck et al. 2014 rodent NHMW 2013/0122/0001–0008 "Allosminthus minutus" = Heosminthus minutus¹ Daxner-Höck 2001 rodent NHMW 2013/0116/0001–0004
Rodentia - Muridae	Tachyoryctoides radnai Tachyoryctoides radnai Daxner-Höck et al. 2015 mouse NHMW MPC specimens
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Desmatolagus gobiensis², Desmatolagus cf. simplex² Desmatolagus gobiensis² Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit Desmatolagus cf. simplex² Argyropulo 1940 rabbit
Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae	Bohlinotona cf. pusilla² Bohlinotona cf. pusilla² Teilhard de Chardin 1926 pika
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Gobisorex kingae² Gobisorex kingae² Sulimski 1970 shrew
Soricomorpha - Changlelestidae	Zaraalestes minutus² Zaraalestes minutus² Matthew and Granger 1924 placental
Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae	Erinaceidae indet.², Palaeoscaptor cf. rectus², Palaeoscaptor tenuis², Palaeoscaptor acridens² Erinaceidae indet.² Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog Palaeoscaptor cf. rectus² Matthew and Granger 1924 hedgehog Palaeoscaptor tenuis² Ziegler et al. 2007 hedgehog Palaeoscaptor acridens² Matthew and Granger 1924 hedgehog

¹Daxner-Höck et al. 2014; ²Daxner-Höck et al. 2017