A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)

G Daxner-Höck, T Mörs, AY Kazansky… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
We report about the Early Miocene Tagay fauna of Olkhon Island, the largest island of the
Baikal Lake. The Tagay fauna is of high scientific importance because of the diversity of …

Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia …

G Daxner-Höck, T Mörs, I Filinov, A Shchetnikov… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Excavations along the Tagay-1 section shed light into the composition of small mammal
assemblages of the Tagay site. The present paper focuses on the geology and …

Biogeographic history of Palearctic caudates revealed by a critical appraisal of their fossil record quality and spatio-temporal distribution

L Macaluso, PD Mannion, SE Evans… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The disjunct geographical range of many lineages of caudates points to a complex
evolutionary and biogeographic history that cannot be disentangled by only considering the …

Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekkota, Lacertilia, and Testudines) from the south of western Siberia, Russia, and northeastern Kazakhstan

D Vasilyan, VS Zazhigin, M Böhme - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Background The present-day amphibian and reptile fauna of Western Siberia are the least
diverse of the Palaearctic Realm, as a consequence of the unfavourable climatic conditions …

The Key to Understanding the European Miocene Chalcides (Squamata, Scincidae) Comes from Asia: The Lizards of the East Siberian Tagay Locality (Baikal Lake) …

A ČerŇanský, EV Syromyatnikova… - The Anatomical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The early middle Miocene (MN 5) lizards from the East Siberian Tagay locality (Baikal Lake,
Russia) in Asia are described here. The lizard fauna consists of two clades, Lacertidae and …

Middle Jurassic stem hynobiids from China shed light on the evolution of basal salamanders

J Jia, JS Anderson, KQ Gao - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
The Hynobiidae are an early-diverging clade of crown-group salamanders (urodeles) with
an important bearing on the evolution of urodeles. Paleobiology and early-branching …

Small Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the Early–Middle Miocene of Eurasia. Part 2. The Fauna of Tagay Locality (Baikal Region; Eastern Siberia)

NV Zelenkov - Paleontological Journal, 2023 - Springer
Remains of small ducks are described from the boundary Early–Middle Miocene deposits of
Tagay (Baikal Region), the only locality in Asia with a representative bird fauna from the …

A new hynobiid-like salamander (Amphibia, Urodela) from Inner Mongolia, China, provides a rare case study of developmental features in an Early Cretaceous fossil …

J Jia, KQ Gao - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
A new fossil salamander, Nuominerpeton aquilonaris (gen. et sp. nov.), is named and
described based on specimens from the Lower Cretaceous Guanghua Formation of Inner …

[PDF][PDF] ANURANS OF THE TAGAY LOCALITY (BAIKAL LAKE, RUSSIA; MIOCENE): BOMBINATORIDAE, HYLIDAE, AND RANIDAE.

EV Syromyatnikova - Russian Journal of Herpetology, 2016 - researchgate.net
The Miocene (MN 5) locality of Tagay (Baikal Lake, Russia) yielded isolated bones of five
anuran taxa: Bombina sp.(Bombinatoridae), Hyla sp.(Hylidae), Pelophylax sp. and Rana …

Sediment geochemistry of the section Tagay-1 at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): a contribution to palaeoenvironmental interpretations

VV Ivanova, AA Shchetnikov, S Kiel - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Miocene Tagay section in the north-western part of Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal,
provides a unique window into past life in northern Asia. To aid palaeoenvironmental …