Also known as Valley of Lakes
Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.3° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 98.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: B mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• Biozone B sensu Höck et al. (1999, Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges. 90, 83-125). Biozone B is sandwiched between two Basalt layers that were dated by means of 40Ar/39Ar method (see Höck et al., 1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project; reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: sieve
Primary reference: I. A. Vislobokova and G. Daxner-Höck. 2002. Oligocene - Early Miocene Ruminants from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 103:213-235 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182118: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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