Hotuliin Teeg, HTE* (Miocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Valley of Lakes

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Biozone D sensu Höck et al. (1999)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

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 182091: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.10.2016, edited by Pauline Coster

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys ulungurensis1 Tong 1989 pika
Sinolagomys major2 Bohlin 1937 pika
NHMW 2013/0195/0001-0002
Sinolagomys kansuensis3 Bohlin 1937 pika
NHMW2013/0417/0000
Amphilagus orientalis3 Erbajeva 2013 pika
NHMW2011/0214/0001–0034
Amphilagus magnus3 Erbajeva 2013 pika
NHMW2011/0213/0001–0006
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus gobiensis1 Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Tachyoryctoides kokonorensis" = Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus Bohlin 1937 mouse
NHMW 2013/0456
Tachyoryctoides engesseri Wang and Qiu 2012 mouse
NHMW specimens
Ayakozomys sp. Tyutkova 2000 mouse
NHMW 2012/0065/0001
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Kherem hsandgoliensis4 Minjin 2004 squirrel
NHMW 2013/0407/0001-0003
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys suni1 Li and Qiu 1980 gundi
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Exallerix sp.1 McKenna and Holton 1967 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet.1 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole