Zhanjiaping, Gansu Province (Miocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (36.1° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 101.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Xianshuihe Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Miocene, MN 3, Orleanian, Shanwangian. The basal part of the third formation of a thick continental series of the Lanzhou basin, called the Xianshuihe Formation.

Environment/lithology: coarse-grained, yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Found in 1987.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42065: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.07.2004, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
some tusk fragments.
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon weilini n. sp. Wang et al. 2005 creodont
several premolar fragments and 2 upper M2 (huge).
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
? Phyllotillon sp. Pilgrim 1910 chalicothere
1 edentulous skull, 1 right upper M3.
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae
"Indricotheriidae indet." = Paraceratheriinae Osborn 1923 odd-toed ungulate
teeth fragments and 1 scaphoid.
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon sp. Forster-Cooper 1915 rhinoceros
1 enormously widened symphysis with tusks and several isolated tusks.
 Rodentia - Muridae
Tachyoryctoides sp. Bohlin 1937 mouse
1 left madible, no teeth. very large.