Also known as TGR-ZO/1, Valley of Lakes
Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.4° N, 101.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 98.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: B mammal zone, Hsanda Gol Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• Biozone B sensu Höck et al. (1999, Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges. 90, 83-125). Biozone B is sandwiched between two Basalt layers that were dated by means of 40Ar/39Ar method (see Höck et al., 1999).
• bed-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: P. López-Guerrero, O. Maridet, and G. Daxner-Höck. 2017. Evolution of the genus Eucricetodon (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia): a taxonomical description and update on the stratigraphical distribution. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 97(1):67-89 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187261: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eucricetodon caducus Shevyreva 1967 mouse |