Yuanjiawowo local fauna: Early/Lower Oligocene, China
collected 1992

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Insectivora
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotheriidae indet. Gill 1872
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Desmatolagus gobiensis Matthew and Granger 1923
Desmatolagus pusillus Teilhard de Chardin 1926
Ordolagus teilhardi (Burke 1941)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Cyclomylus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Tsaganomys sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Tsaganomys minutus (Kowalski 1974)
Tsaganomys altaicus Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Bounomys bohlini
synonym of Yindirtemys
Bounomys ulantatalensis
synonym of Yindirtemys
? Karakoromys sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Tataromys sigmodon Matthew and Granger 1923
Tataromys plicidens Matthew and Granger 1923
Tataromys minor (Huang 1985)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus parvulus Bohlin 1946
recombined as Bohlinosminthus parvulus
Parasminthus tangingoli Bohlin 1946
Parasminthus asiaecentralis Bohlin 1946
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon sp. Thaler 1966
Eucricetodon asiaticus (Matthew and Granger 1923)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
? Anomoemys sp. Wang 1986
Anomoemys lohiculus (Matthew and Granger 1923)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Didymoconida
Didymoconus sp. Matthew and Granger 1924
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Ningxia County:Haiyuan
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 105.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 101.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Qingshuiying
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Originally thought to be the upper part of the Hejiakouzi Formation, but now thought to be the upper part of the Qingshuiying Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red or brown silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark red-brown silty mudstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collection dates:1992
Metadata
Database number:182895
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-28 08:17:18 Last modified:2016-11-28 08:17:18
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-28 08:17:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61008. B. Wang, Z. Yan, Y. Lu and G. Chen. 1994. Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32(4):285-296 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]