Shangxigou (GL 9601B) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (36.5° N, 104.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 100.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Xianshuihe Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Middle part of the red mudstone of the lower member of the Xianshuihe Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• yellow sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1995; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang and Z.-X. Qiu. 2000. Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Lower Member of Xianshuihe Formation in Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(1):10-35 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175383: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Yindirtemys grangeri Bohlin 1946 gundi
IVPP V 11781
Yindirtemys xiningensis Wang 1997 gundi
IVPP V 11786
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
"Parasminthus parvulus" = Bohlinosminthus parvulus Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11762
Parasminthus "sp. 1" Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11765
Parasminthus asiaecentralis Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11752
Parasminthus tangingoli Bohlin 1946 rodent
IVPP V11757
Litodonomys huangheensis n. gen. n. sp. Wang and Qiu 2000 rodent
IVPP V11768 - type
Heterosminthus lanzhouensis n. sp. Wang and Qiu 2000 rodent
IVPP V11773 - type
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon sp. Thaler 1966 mouse
IVPP V 11823
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys kansuensis Bohlin 1937 pika
IVPP V 11741
Sinolagomys cf. major Bohlin 1937 pika
IVPP V 11746
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850 hedgehog
IVPP V 11734
Amphechinus cf. minimus Bohlin 1942 hedgehog
IVPP V 11730
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
IVPP V 11735