PBDB Collection

Tatal Gol, section TAT-E/27 (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: C1 mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Biozone C1

• 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 182085: 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	Yindirtemys deflexus⁶ Yindirtemys deflexus⁶ Teilhard de Chardin 1926 gundi
Rodentia - Dipodidae	Bohlinosminthus parvulus¹, Heosminthus borrae¹, Litodonomys lajeensis¹, Parasminthus cf. debruijni¹ Bohlinosminthus parvulus¹ Bohlin 1946 rodent NHMW 2013/0216/0000 Heosminthus borrae¹ Daxner-Höck et al. 2014 rodent NHMW 2013/0124/0001–0003 Litodonomys lajeensis¹ Li and Qiu 1980 rodent NHMW 2013/0237/0001 Parasminthus cf. debruijni¹ Lopatin 1999 rodent NHMW 2013/0198/0001
Rodentia - Muridae	Tachyoryctoides sp. Tachyoryctoides sp. Bohlin 1937 mouse NHMW 2013/0244/0001
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Eocricetodon meridionalis⁴, Eucricetodon bagus⁵ Eocricetodon meridionalis⁴ Wang and Meng 1986 rodent NHMW/2015/0304/0001 Eucricetodon bagus⁵ Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012 rodent
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Desmatolagus sp.² Desmatolagus sp.² Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae	Sinolagomys major², Sinolagomys kansuensis³ Sinolagomys major² Bohlin 1937 pika Sinolagomys kansuensis³ Bohlin 1937 pika NHMW 2014/0284/0001- 0009
Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae	Palaeoscaptor gigas², Amphechinus minutissimus², Amphechinus major² Palaeoscaptor gigas² Lopatin 2002 hedgehog Amphechinus minutissimus² Ziegler et al. 2007 hedgehog Amphechinus major² Ziegler et al. 2007 hedgehog

¹Daxner-Höck et al. 2014; ²Daxner-Höck et al. 2017; ³Erbajeva et al. 2017; ⁴López-Guerrero et al. 2017; ⁵López-Guerrero et al. 2017; ⁶Oliver and Daxner-Höck 2017