Also known as Tunghsuenkuan beds

Where: Jiangsu, China (32.0° N, 118.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.3° N, 117.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The age of Late Miocene is not sure, it is based on the comparison to the better known Tung Gur (Dong Gur) Formation in Inner Mongolia.

•The beds "Dongxuanguan" are also known under "Tunghsuenkuan".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, brown, gray, yellow sandstone and unlithified, gray, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• The fragmentary lower jaw of Anchitherium aurelianense is stored in the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology. It has the no: V822

Primary reference: M. M. Chow and C.-K. Hu. 1956. The occurence of Anchitherium aurelianense at Fangshan, Nanking. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (=Gushengwu xuebao) 4(4):525-533 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36370: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 27.01.2004, edited by Hannah O'Regan

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