Halamagai, Northern Dzungar Basin, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Miocene of China)

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

• Yellow sandstones intercalated with grey-green clays

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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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Atlantoxerus sp. n. sp. Major 1893 squirrel
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet. n. gen. Cope 1881 rodent
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Schizogalerix duolebulejinensis n. sp. Bi et al. 1999 hedgehog
? Mioechinus sp. Butler 1948 hedgehog
cf. M. gobiensis
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium sp. von Meyer 1844 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Lagomerycidae
Stephanocemas sp. Colbert 1936 ruminant
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Platybelodon sp. Borissiak 1928 gomphothere