Pao-Te-Chou (Miocene of China)

Also known as Pao-Te-Hsien, Locality 110

Where: China (39.0° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 109.6° 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 Zdansky in 1922

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 195284: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sphaerica n. sp. Wiman 1930 turtle
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion dermatorhinum hipparionine horse