Tunggur Micromammals (Miocene to of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.6° N, 112.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 110.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: Z. Qiu. 1987. Neogene micromammals of China. In P. Whyte (ed.), Paleoenvironment of East Asia from the mid-Tertiary, Second International Conference on the Paleoenvironment of East Asia 77(1-2):834-848 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13483: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 02.04.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
Desmanella sp. Engesser 1972 mole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
Species 1
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
Species 2
Dinosorex sp. Engesser 1972 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
Species 1
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
Species 2
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Megacricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Plesiodipus leei Young 1927 mouse
Cricetodon sp. Lartet 1851 mouse
Eumyarion sp. Thaler 1966 mouse
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Paralactaga sp. Young 1927 rodent
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Leptodontomys sp. Shotwell 1956 rodent
Keramidomys sp. Hartenberger 1966 rodent
 Rodentia - Castoridae
"Amblycastor tunggurensis" = Anchitheriomys, Monosaulax tunggurensis
"Amblycastor tunggurensis" = Anchitheriomys beaver
 Rodentia - Gliridae
cf. Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel
Atlantoxerus sp. Major 1893 squirrel
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotonidae indet. Thomas 1897 pika
Alloptox gobiensis Dawson 1961 pika
Bellatona forsythmajori Dawson 1961 pika
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat