Where: Xinjiang, China (45.0° N, 85.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 83.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shawan Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Originally listed as coming from Changi Formation, but Qiu and Wang (2007) state that it comes from the Shawan Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: C.-S. Chiu. 1973. A New Genus of Giant Rhinoceros from Oligocene of Dzungaria, Sinkiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 11(2):182-191 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182568: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dzungariotherium orgosensis n. gen. n. sp.
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