Huangyangtou: Early/Lower Miocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aprotodon lanzhouensis
Qiu and Xie 1997
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| IVPP V11379 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu |
| Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 103.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 101.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Xianshuihe | Member: | middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Second white sandstone from the basal part of the middle member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: White sandstone | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | GL 9510 | ||
| Database number: | 175346 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 | Last modified: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57314. | Z. Qiu and J. Xie. 1997. A new species of Aprotodon (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 35(4):250-267 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |