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Tunggur is a Miocene mammalian fossil
locality, located about 70 Km east of Erlian. It was discovered in 1928
by the Third Central Asiatic Expedition organized by the American Museum
of Natural History. And an intensive excavation was carried out later
in 1930. An expedition organized by Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology
and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica in 1986. Detailed descriptions
of the collected small mammals with discussion of the Tunggur fauna are
given in this paper.
Families described: Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Talpinae,
Incertae Subfamiliae,Soricidae, Soricinae, Incertae Familiae, Aplodontidae,
Sciurinae, Castoridae, Eomyidae, Gliridae, Zapodidae, Dipodidae, Cricetidae,
Gobicricetodontinae subfam., Cricetodontinae, Cricetinae, Ochotonidae
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