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Miocene Ochotonids of the Genus Bellatona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from Mongolia

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New data on the early and middle Miocene ochotonids of the genus Bellatona from the Valley of Lakes, Central Mongolia is based on the rich material collected by the team of the joint Austrian-Mongolian expeditions from the deposits of the Loo Formation. Three taxa: B. forsythmajori Dawson, 1961, B. yanghuensis Zhou, 1988, B. kazakhstanica Erbajeva, 1988 were discovered in the Mongolian fauna. This article presents morphological analysis and descriptions of taxa, comparison with known nominative species and their stratigraphic and geographical distributions.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are extremely grateful to G. Daxner-Höck and U. Gӧhlich (NHMW) for valuable help and consultations. M. Erbajeva thanks professors R. Tedford† and L. Marcus† for the opportunity to work with AMNH collections. The authors thank the reviewers for valuable comments.

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The study was done as part of the state assignment of the Geological Institute of the Siberian Branch of RAS under project IX.127.1.5. “Dynamics of biogeocenoses …,” No. of State registration AAAA-A16-116121550056-9 and partially as part of the RFBR project No. 20-05-00163.

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  1. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, 670047, Ulan-Ude, Russia

    M. A. Erbajeva

  2. Institute of Paleontology and Geology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    B. Bayarmaa

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Erbajeva, M.A., Bayarmaa, B. Miocene Ochotonids of the Genus Bellatona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from Mongolia. Paleontol. J. 55, 571–578 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103012105004X

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