Also known as SHG-A/1, Valley of Lakes
Where: Övörkhangai, Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 99.3° 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: M. Böhme. 2007. 3. Herpetofauna (Anura, Squamata) and palaeoclimatic implications: preliminary results. In G. Daxner-Höck (ed.), Oligocene-Miocene Vertebrates from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia): Morphology, phylogenetic and stratigraphic implications. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A:43-52 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135790: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 09.11.2012, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Melanosaurini indet. Sullivan 1979 squamates | |
Tinosaurus sp. Marsh 1872 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
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