Dodogol, Western Transbaikalia (Pleistocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Western Transbaikalia, Russian Federation (51.8° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 107.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Equivalent to the Odessa complex, Late Villafranchian, earliest Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology:

• reddish clays.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Erbaeva. 1986. The Late Cenozoic Faunistic complexes of Transbaikalia with special reference to the micromammalia. Quatarpalaontologie 6:25-28 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40264: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Villanyia is represented by a more progressive species.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona cf. hyperborea
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Villanyia laguriformes, Allophaiomys sp., Mimomys sp.
Allophaiomys sp. Kormos 1932 vole
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902 vole
 Rodentia - Siphneidae
Prosiphneus sp.
Prosiphneus sp. Teilhard de Jardin 1926 rodent
Prosiphneus (ex. gr. youngi-pseudarmandi) sp.
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Citellus (Urocitellus) sp." = Spermophilus
"Citellus (Urocitellus) sp." = Spermophilus Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel