Xiagou (GL 9513B) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (35.1° N, 105.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 101.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Xianshuihe Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Middle part of the red mudstone of the lower member of the Xianshuihe Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• yellow sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1995; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang and Z.-X. Qiu. 2000. Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Lower Member of Xianshuihe Formation in Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(1):10-35 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175380: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys kansuensis
Sinolagomys kansuensis Bohlin 1937 pika
IVPP V 11738
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus tangingoli, Parasminthus asiaecentralis, "Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus, Heterosminthus lanzhouensis
Parasminthus tangingoli Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11754
Parasminthus asiaecentralis Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11749
"Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11759
Heterosminthus lanzhouensis Wang and Qiu 2000 rodent
IVPP V11770
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys ambiguus, Yindirtemys grangeri, Yindirtemys xiningensis
Yindirtemys ambiguus Wang 1997 gundi
IVPP V 11787
Yindirtemys grangeri Bohlin 1946 gundi
IVPP V 11778
Yindirtemys xiningensis Wang 1997 gundi
IVPP V 11783