Paleogene Central Asian Mammal Occurrence and Body Size Data

Occurrence dataset: A relatively large (~1500) dataset of fossil mammal occurrence data for the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene (66 Ma - 23 Ma) of Mongolia and Northern China above 30 degrees North. Occurrence data comprises species or genus name, specimen information where possible, geological unit specimen was found in, age (range) of specimen and/or geological unit and any other relevant information. Data taken from multiple sources. The majority comes from the Palaeobiology Database (PBDB), an open-access community dataset of global fossil occurrences (and some trait data) for all time periods and taxonomic groups. Our dataset used only the mammal records from our study region and time period. A very small amount of data (10's of occurrences) was taken from the NOW (New and Old Worlds) Database of fossil mammals (NOW database), another open-access community dataset. This database contains only mammal occurrence and trait data for fossil mammals throughout geological history and across the world. Additional occurrence data (~100) was collected first hand from the literature by Dr Gemma Benevento.

Body Size dataset: Lower first molar (m1) length and width (which can be used to estimate mammal body size) was collected for approximately 60% of the individual species in the occurrence dataset (~430 species).

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Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description Mongolia and China above 30 degrees North
Bounding coordinates
North: 52.066938
West: 73.467837
East: 134.489979
South: 30.0
Taxonomic coverage
Class Mammalia
General taxonomic description All Mammalia
Other info
Last Updated April 11, 2024, 12:37 PM (UTC+00:00)
Created December 14, 2023, 4:57 PM (UTC+00:00)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Susanne Fritz
Organization affiliations
Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Numeric (spreadsheet, measurements, etc.) , Occurrence data
Estimated volume of created data <1GB
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) Full datasets will be published alongside first publication associated with this dataset. Data will either be published as a supplementary .csv file, or stored on a data repository such as Dryad. PBDB and NOW data are already publicly available. In due course we will aim to add any additional data collected to the PBDB.

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/e72ee946-2572-4c94-9798-f7b3fd9a28c0