Also known as SHG-C/1+2, Valley of Lakes

Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 99.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: A mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Biozone A sensu Höck et al. (1999, Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges. 90, 83-125). Biozone A is capped by a Basalt layer that has been dated by means of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method (see Höck et al., 1999).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project in 1995-1997, 2001, 2004, 2006; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav, and O. Maridet. 2014. Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 116:131-214 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187301: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.07.2017, edited by Pauline Coster

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