Where: Ningxia, China (36.6° N, 105.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 103.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hongliugou Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Basal part of Hongliugou Fm
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, yellow sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1992; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: B. Wang, Z. Yan, Y. Lu and G. Chen. 1994. Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32(4):285-296 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182886: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
Parasminthus sp. Bohlin 1946 rodent | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
Aprotodon sp. Forster-Cooper 1915 rhinoceros | |
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