Tuchentse (SSPE) (Pliocene of China)

Also known as Tuchengzi

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.5° N, 114.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 114.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone

• "represents most probably an eastern extension of the early Pliocene Hipparion fauna of North China."
• "red clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SSPE in Sept-Oct 1959

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected from 29 September to 13 October 1959.

Primary reference: M. Chow and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1960. Exploration in Inner Mongolia: a preliminary account of the 1959 field work of the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition (SSPE). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28784: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Sinohippus zitteli" = Anchitherium zitteli, Hipparion sp.
"Sinohippus zitteli" = Anchitherium zitteli Schlosser 1903 anchitheriine horse
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla -
Ruminantia indet.
Ruminantia indet. ruminant
"other small ruminants"
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet.
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet.
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet.
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent