Amusuwu, near Tung Gur, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu (Miocene of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.5° N, 112.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 110.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• Early Tortonian, MN9, Bahean.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Site found during prospecting in 1986.

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 42251: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Anchitheriomys sp. Roger 1885 beaver
 Rodentia - Siphneidae
Prosiphneus sp. Teilhard de Jardin 1926 rodent
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Bellatona forsythmajori Dawson 1961 pika
 Artiodactyla - Lagomerycidae
Dicrocerus sp. Lartet 1837 ruminant