Olon Ovoony Khurem, section ODO-B/1: Early/Lower Miocene, Mongolia
collected by joint Austrian-Mongolian project

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Pteromyini indet. Brandt 1855
Maridet et al. 2014
NHMW 2013/0413/0001
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox cf. minor Li 1978
NHMW2011/0185/0001
Bellatona sp. Dawson 1961
NHMW2013/0381/0000
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Bayankhongor County:Bogd
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 101.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° North, 100.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1670 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene Mammal zone: D1/1
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:ODO-B Local bed:1
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Biozone D1/1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Collectors:joint Austrian-Mongolian project
Metadata
Also known as:Valley of Lakes
Database number:182145
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-10-11 08:22:39 Last modified:2016-10-11 08:22:39
Access level:the public Released:2016-10-11 08:22:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]