Fu-Ku-Hsien (Miocene of China)

Also known as Locality 51

Where: China (39.2° N, 110.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 109.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Chang in 1921

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1930. Fossile Schildfröten aus China. Palaeontologica Sinica C 6(3):1-55 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195283: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo shensiensis n. sp.
Testudo shensiensis n. sp. Wiman 1930 turtle
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae indet.
Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886 bear-dog
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Samotherium sp., Honanotherium schlosseri
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium wimani
Chilotherium wimani Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion dermatorhinum
Hipparion dermatorhinum hipparionine horse