Yuanjiawowo Village (Miocene of China)

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

• grayish and grey-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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus sp. Bohlin 1946 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
Aprotodon sp. Forster-Cooper 1915 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Turpanotherium sp. Qiu and Wang 2007 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V 3307