Where: Qinghai, China (36.5° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 99.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1978

Primary reference: Z. Qiu, C. Li, and S. Wang. 1981. Miocene mammalian fossils from Xining Basin, Qinghai. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 19(2):156-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 34675: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.09.2003

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