Where: Nei Mongol, China (40.7° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 110.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Late Pleistocene; thickness of bed 5 is 1-2 m
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, fine-grained, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: It is stored in the museum of Baotou in Inner Mongolia; collection no. is: BM 8601
Primary reference: W. Huang, Y. Li, and Z. Nie. 1989. Two new species of fossil Megaceros from North China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(1):53-64 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35929: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megaceros baotouensis n. sp.
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