Ulaan Tologoi, UTO-A/5 (Miocene of Mongolia)

Also known as Wild Ass Camp; Ulan-Tologoi; Ulaan Tolgoi

Where: Mongolia (45.3° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 100.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Loh Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• "occupies an interval in the Shanwangian (early Miocene) and is earlier than the middle Miocene Tung Gur"; local biozone D1/2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; argillaceous, silty sandstone

• formation "consists of cross-bedded sands and gravels mixed with silt and clay of both fluvial and aeolian origin"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. C. McKenna in 1991, 1994

Primary reference: T. Rothwell. 2004. Chapter 12: New felid material from the Ulaan Tologoi Locality, Loh Formation (early Miocene) of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 285(1):157-165 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85060: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.11.2008, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Moschidae indet.7
Moschidae indet.7 Gray 1821 musk deer
NHMW 2001z0119/0001
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Eotragus sp.8
Eotragus sp.8 Pilgrim 1939 antelope
NHMW 2001z0118/0001
 Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus sp.
Pseudaelurus sp. Leidy 1858 cat
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Postexallerix securis n. gen. n. sp.3
Postexallerix securis n. gen. n. sp.3 Lopatin and Zazhigin 2003 hedgehog
GIN, no. 960/28 - type
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox gobiensis2
Alloptox gobiensis2 Dawson 1961 pika
NHMW2011/0182
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Ansomys "sp. 2"6
Ansomys "sp. 2"6 Qiu 1987 mountain beaver
NHMW 2015/0385/0001-0003
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Kherem hsandgoliensis4, Plesiosciurus aff. sinensis4
Kherem hsandgoliensis4 Minjin 2004 squirrel
NHMW 2013/0406/0001
Plesiosciurus aff. sinensis4 Qiu and Liu 1986 squirrel
NHMW 2013/0400/0001-0005
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet.5, Keramidomys sp.5
Eomyidae indet.5 Winge 1887 rodent
NHMW 2013/0074/0001 - Eomyops sp. or Leptodontomys sp.
Keramidomys sp.5 Hartenberger 1966 rodent
NHMW 2013/0075/ 0001
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heterosminthus mongoliensis n. sp.1
Heterosminthus mongoliensis n. sp.1 Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000 rodent
NHMW2001z0038/0001/1-4
1Daxner-Höck 2001; 2Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014; 3Lopatin and Zazhigin 2003; 4Maridet et al. 2014; 5Maridet et al. 2015; 6Maridet et al. 2017; 7Mennecart et al. 2019; 8Vislobokova and Daxner-Höck 2002