Taatsiin Gol West, TGW-A* (Oligocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Valley of Lakes

Where: Mongolia (45.4° N, 101.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 99.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Biozone C sensu Höck et al. 1999

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

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 182121: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.10.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Ordolagus cf. teilhardi2 Burke 1941 rabbit
NHMW2011/0198/0001
Desmatolagus cf. orlovi2 Gureev 1960 rabbit
NHMW2013/0341/0000
Desmatolagus gobiensis2 Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
NHMW2011/0198/0001
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys badamae n. sp.1 Erbajeva et al. 2017 pika
NHMW 2011/0191/0001 - type
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys deflexus3 Teilhard de Chardin 1926 gundi
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae "gen. 1" Gray 1821 antelope
NHMW 2001z0114/0001