Bulalishan (Pleistocene of China)

Also known as Bulali Mountain

Where: Guangxi, China (23.2° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 108.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The age of Middle Pleistocene is not quite sure.

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, condensed, yellow, sandy claystone

• yellow, sandy clay, hardly condensed

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Zhang, M. Wu, and J. Liu. 1973. A new discovery of fossil giant ape [= Gigantopithecus] teeth in Wuming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Kexue Tongbao (= Chinese Science Bulletin, Beijing) 18(3):130-133 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38649: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 27.04.2004, edited by John Alroy and David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
"Testudo tingia n. sp." = Cuora tungia
"Testudo tingia n. sp." = Cuora tungia Yeh 1963 Asian box turtle
IVPP V 2768
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857 elephant
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799 macaque
 Primates - Hominidae
Gigantopithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1935 ape
 Rodentia - Spalacidae
Rhizomys sp. Gray 1831 greater bamboo rat
 Rodentia - Muridae
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear
Ailuropoda melanoleuca David 1869 giant panda
ssp: fovealis
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutra sp. Brisson 1762 otter
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762 hyaena
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
Capricornis cf. sumatraensis Linnaeus 1758 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870 one-horned rhinoceros