Olon Ovoony Khurem, section ODO-B/1 (Miocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Valley of Lakes

Where: Bayankhongor, Mongolia (45.5° N, 101.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 100.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: D1/1 mammal zone, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Biozone D1/1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: sieve

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 182145: 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 2013/0413/0001
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox cf. minor Li 1978 pika
NHMW2011/0185/0001
Bellatona sp. Dawson 1961 pika
NHMW2013/0381/0000