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
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 175381: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus, Parasminthus "sp. 2", Parasminthus tangingoli, Parasminthus asiaecentralis, Sinosminthus sp., Heterosminthus lanzhouensis, Litodonomys huangheensis
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