Where: Xinjiang, China (47.0° N, 87.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 87.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Halamagai Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• MN 8, Astaracian, Tunggurian. The fossil bearing deposits are mainly yellow sandstones intercalated with grey-green clays. The whole series of intercalated layers is called the Halamagai Formation.

Environment/lithology: yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 42246: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.07.2004, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende

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