Wu-Hsiang-Hsien (Miocene of China)

Where: China (36.8° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 111.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1930. Fossile Schildfröten aus China. Palaeontologica Sinica C 6(3):1-55 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195285: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Testudo hipparionum n. sp. Wiman 1930 turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae