Where: Hebei, China (41.5° N, 115.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 112.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hannoba Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• MN2, Early Miocene, Agenian, Xiejian. Fossils found in a layer of claystones intercalated in the so-called Hannoba (Andersson's Han Jo Pa) basalt.

Environment/lithology: claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42064: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.07.2004

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