Unkheltseg, UNCH-A/4 (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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Biozone D sensu Höck et al. (1999)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siltstone and claystone

• Rose red silt and clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: M. Erbajeva and G. Daxner-Höck. 2014. The most prominent Lagomorpha from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 116:215-245 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182138: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.10.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Pteromyini indet. Brandt 1855 squirrel
NHMW 2013/0412/0001-0004
Plesiosciurus aff. sinensis Qiu and Liu 1986 squirrel
NHMW 2013/0398/0001
? Eutamias sp. Trouessart 1880 chipmunk
NHMW 2013/0404/0001
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox cf. minor Li 1978 pika
NHMW2011/0186/0001
Amphilagus plicadentis Erbajeva 2013 pika
NHMW2011/2010
Sinolagomys major Bohlin 1937 pika
NHMW2013/0391/0001