Suosuoquan, Dzungar Basin, Xinjiang: Aquitanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys sp. Bohlin 1937
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Tachyoryctoides sp. Bohlin 1937
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Xinjiang
Coordinates: 46.5° North, 87.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 86.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Aquitanian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Suosuoquan
Stratigraphy comments: Early Miocene, MN 1, Agenian, Xiejian. In the northern part of the Dzungar Basin, from the Suosuoquan Formation which lies unconformably between the Wulungu Formation (Cretaceous) and Halamagai Formation (Middle Miocene).
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Probably not the full faunal list - says it 'includes' the following species.
Taxonomic list comments:Similar faunal composition to Lanzhou.
Metadata
Database number:42062
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-23 03:32:55 Last modified:2004-07-23 06:34:18
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-23 03:32:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11208.PACED Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]