Also known as GL 9514

Where: Gansu, China (36.1° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: middle Member (Xianshuihe Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• First white sandstone from the basal part of the middle member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1986-1987; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175342: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.12.2015

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