LOH A/2: Early/Lower Miocene, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Gobitherium sp. Kretzoi 1943
NHMW 2000z0158
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Plesiosciurus aff. sinensis Qiu and Liu 1986
Maridet et al. 2014
NHMW 2013/0401/0001
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox gobiensis (Dawson 1961)
Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014
NHMW2011/0183
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Metadata
Also known as:Valley of Lakes
Database number:181064
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-08-17 06:49:06 Last modified:2016-10-11 08:27:57
Access level:the public Released:2016-08-17 06:49:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60144. K. Heissig. 2007. 8. Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 108A:233-269 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

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]
62813 O. Maridet, G. Daxner-Höck, D. Badamgarav and U. B. Göhlich. 2014. New discoveries of Sciurids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 116:271-291 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]