Université de Fribourg

Oligocene and early Miocene mammal biostratigraphy of the Valley of Lakes in Mongolia

Harzhauser, Mathias ; Daxner-Höck, Gudrun ; Erbajeva, Margarita A. ; López-Guerrero, Paloma ; Maridet, Olivier ; Oliver, Adriana ; Piller, Werner E. ; Göhlich, Ursula B. ; Ziegler, Reinhard

In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2017, vol. 97, no. 1, p. 219–231

The Taatsiin Gol Basin in Mongolia is a key area for understanding the evolution and dispersal of Central Asian mammal faunas during the Oligocene and early Miocene. After two decades of intense fieldwork, the area is extraordinarily well sampled and taxonomically well studied, yielding a large dataset of 19,042 specimens from 60 samples. The specimens represent 176 species-level and 99...