Unkheltseg (UNCH 3/4, mixed): Early/Lower Miocene, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Heissig 2007
NHMW 2000z0159/0001
cf. Caementodon sp. Heissig 1972
Heissig 2007
NHMW 2000z0161/0001
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Bellatona yanghuensis Zhou 1988
Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014
NHMW 2011/0189/0001–0011
Sinolagomys ulungurensis Tong 1989
Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014
NHMW2013/0376/0001–0004
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Tachyoryctoides kokonorensis Li and Qiu 1980
Daxner-Höck et al. 2015
synonym of Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus
NHMW 2013/0460
Mammalia - Didymoconida
Didymoconus berkeyi Matthew and Granger 1924
nomen dubium belonging to Didymoconida
NHMW 2000z0058/0046
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 101.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° North, 100.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Loh
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Biozone D sensu Höck et al. (1999)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Metadata
Also known as:Valley of Lakes
Database number:176449
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-12 10:54:03 Last modified:2016-10-10 11:28:18
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-12 10:54:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58064. M. Morlo and D. Nagel. 2002. New Didymoconidae (Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Central Mongolia and first information on the tooth eruption sequence of the family. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 223(1):123-144 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

60530 G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav, and O. Maridet. 2015. Evolution of Tachyoryctoidinae (Rodentia, Mammalia): evidences of the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 117:161-195 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60553 M. Erbajeva and G. Daxner-Höck. 2014. The most prominent Lagomorpha from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 116:215-245 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60144 K. Heissig. 2007. 8. Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A:233-269 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]