1 km south of Lanzhou railway station (Oligocene of China)

Also known as Northern slope of Gaolan mountain

Where: Gansu, China (36.1° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 100.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Tentatively correlated with the top of the second Formation (Yehucheng Formation) in the north bank of the Yellow River (Qiu 1990)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone

• gypsiferous red clay,

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1986

Primary reference: Z. Qiu and Z. Gu. 1988. A New Locality Yielding Mid-Tertiary Mammals Near Lanzhou, Gansu. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 26(3):198-213 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42061: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
"Metexallerix gaolanshanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Exallerix gaolanshanensis
"Metexallerix gaolanshanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Exallerix gaolanshanensis Qiu and Gu 1988 hedgehog
LDV 860901 - holotype
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Tsaganomys altaicus Matthew and Granger 1923 mole rat
LDV 860911
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
"Tataromys grangeri" = Yindirtemys grangeri, "Tataromys suni" = Yindirtemys suni, Tataromys sp., "Leptotataromys cf. gracilidens" = Tataromys sigmodon
"Tataromys grangeri" = Yindirtemys grangeri Bohlin 1946 gundi
LDV 860908
"Tataromys suni" = Yindirtemys suni Li and Qiu 1980 gundi
LDV 860902-LDV 860907
Tataromys sp. Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
LDV 860909
"Leptotataromys cf. gracilidens" = Tataromys sigmodon Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
LDV 960910