Tavan Ovoony Deng, RHN-A/7: Late/Upper Oligocene, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Proansomys badamae Maridet et al. 2017
Maridet et al. 2017
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Asianeomys dangheensis (Wang 2002)
Maridet et al. 2015
NHMW 2013/0065/0001
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heterosminthus cf. firmus Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000
Daxner-Höck 2001
NHMW 2001z0037/0004/1-3
Heterosminthus firmus Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Parasminthus cf. tangingoli Bohlin 1946
Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
Bohlinosminthus parvulus (Bohlin 1946)
Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
NHMW 2013/0221/0000
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus cf. asiaticus Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
NHMW2001z 0064/0001/1-9 (Plesiosminthus sp.1 in Höck et al. 1999)
    = Plesiosminthus asiaticus Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
Daxner-Höck et al. 2014
Plesiosminthus asiaticus Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys deflexus (Teilhard de Chardin 1926)
Schmidt-Kittler et al. 2007
original and current combination Tataromys deflexus
NHMW 2006z
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Tsaganomys altaicus Matthew and Granger 1923
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys sp. Bohlin 1937
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Sinolagomys major Bohlin 1937
Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014
NHMW2013/0366/0000
Sinolagomys kansuensis Bohlin 1937
Erbajeva et al. 2017
NHMW 2013/0243/0001-0003
Sinolagomys ulungurensis Tong 1989
Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014
NHMW2013/0371/0000
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus cf. chinensis Erbajeva and Sen 1998
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Desmatolagus gobiensis Matthew and Granger 1923
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Elasmotheriini indet. Dollo 1885
Heissig 2007
NHMW 2000z0154/0001
Mammalia - Soricidae
Heterosoricinae indet. Viret and Zapfe 1951
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus minutissimus Ziegler et al. 2007
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Amphechinus major Ziegler et al. 2007
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Palaeoscaptor cf. rectus Matthew and Granger 1924
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
Mammalia - Didymoconida
Didymoconus berkeyi Matthew and Granger 1924
nomen dubium belonging to Didymoconida
NHMW 2000z0058/0020
Didymoconus berkey
Daxner-Höck et al. 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 101.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° North, 99.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Loh
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Biozone C1 sensu Höck et al. (1999)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Brown silt
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Metadata
Also known as:Taatsiin Gol Area, Valley of Lakes; Huch Teeg
Database number:176447
Authorizer:P. Mannion, P. Coster Enterer:P. Mannion, P. Coster
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-12 10:47:18 Last modified:2016-08-17 07:42:48
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-12 10:47:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58064. M. Morlo and D. Nagel. 2002. New Didymoconidae (Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Central Mongolia and first information on the tooth eruption sequence of the family. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 223(1):123-144 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

60086 G. Daxner-Höck. 2001. New zapodids (Rodentia) from Oligocene-Miocene deposits in Mongolia. Part 1. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 81(2):359-389 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62824 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]
68908 G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav, R. Barsbold, B. Bayarmaa, M. Erbajeva, U.B. Göhlich, and Y. Khand. 2017. Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia). Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironments 97(1):111-218 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
60145 G. Daxner-Höck and W. Wu. 2003. Plesiosminthus (Zapodidae, Mammalia) from China and Mongolia: migrations to Europe. Deinsea 10:127-151 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62800 M. Erbajeva, B. Baatarjav, G. Daxner-Höck and L. J. Flynn. 2017. Occurrences of Sinolagomys (Lagomorpha) from the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 97(1):11-24 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60553 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]
60144 K. Heissig. 2007. 8. Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A:233-269 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60087 O. Maridet, G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav and U. B. Göhlich. 2015. The eomyid rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89:207-228 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62815 O. Maridet, G. Daxner-Höck, P. López-Guerrero and U. B. Göhlich. 2017. The record of Aplodontidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) in the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia) with some comments on the morphologic variability. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 97(1):25-49 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60091 N. Schmidt-Kittler, N. Vianey-Liaud, and L. Marivaux. 2007. 6. The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mamalia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 108A:173-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]