Ulantatal (UTL1): Early/Lower Oligocene, China
collected 1987

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Anomoemys lohiculus (Matthew and Granger 1923)
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
IVPP V17669.1-18
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Bohlinosminthus parvulus (Bohlin 1946)
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Parasminthus tangingoli Bohlin 1946
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Parasminthus asiaecentralis Bohlin 1946
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Heosminthus sp. Wang 1985
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Shamosminthus tongi Huang 1992
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
? Gobiosminthus sp. Huang 1992
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Gobiosminthus qiui Huang 1992
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon informal sp. 1 Thaler 1966
IVPP V17646.1
Eucricetodon jilantaiensis Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012
IVPP V17630
Eucricetodon asiaticus (Matthew and Granger 1923)
IVPP V17623
Eucricetodon bagus Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2012
IVPP V17637
Plesiodipus sp. Young 1927
IVPP V17652.1
    = Argyromys cicigei López-Guerrero et al. 2017
López-Guerrero et al. 2017
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Tataromyinae informal n. gen. 1
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
    = Huangomys frequens Schmidt-Kittler et al. 2007
Gomes Rodrigues et al. 2014
Yindirtemys ulantatalensis (Huang 1985)
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Yindirtemys shevyrevae Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Ctenodactylinae informal n. gen.
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Helanshania deserta n. gen., n. sp. Vianey-Liaud et al. 2010
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2010
UTL1-50 - holotype (tooth); UTL1-51 - paratype
Alashania tengkoliensis n. gen., n. sp. Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
UTL1-24 - holotype
Karakoromys decessus Matthew and Granger 1923
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Tataromys sigmodon Matthew and Granger 1923
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Tataromys minor (Huang 1985)
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
Tataromys plicidens Matthew and Granger 1923
Vianey-Liaud et al. 2006
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 105.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.9° North, 101.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ulantatal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ulan I (late Early Oligocene)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: Siltstones and claystones
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collection dates:1987
Metadata
Also known as:Ulan I
Database number:175406
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-12-11 10:46:55 Last modified:2015-12-11 10:48:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-12-11 10:46:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57358. H. Gomes Rodrigues, L. Marivaux, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2012. The Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Ulantatal area (Inner Mongolia, China): New data concerning the evolution of Asian cricetids during the Oligocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 56:160-179 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

57614 H. Gomes Rodrigues, L. Marivaux, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2014. Rodent paleocommunities from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China). Palaeovertebrata 38(1):e3:1-11 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62009 P. López-Guerrero, O. Maridet, Z. Zhang and G. Daxner-Höck. 2017. A new species of Argyromys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia): Its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. PLoS ONE 12(3):e0172733:1-23 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
57579 M. Vianey-Liaud, H. Gomes Rodrigues, and L. Marivaux. 2010. A new Oligocene Ctenodactylinae (Rodentia: Mammalia) from Ulantatal (nei Mongol): new insight on the phylogenetic origins of the modern Ctenodactylidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160:531-550 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
57587 M. Vianey-Liaud, N. Schmidt-Kittler, and L. Marivaux. 2006. The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia) from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China). Palaeovertebrata 34(3-4):111-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]