Hsienshuiho, Yungteng, Kansu (Miocene of China)

Also known as Hsen Shui Ho, Gansu. Hsienshuibo

Where: Gansu, China (36.7° N, 103.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hsienshuiho Member (Kansu Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Chiu et al. (1979) say Late Miocene, but other sites of the same date in this paper have been revised to Middle Miocene by Qiu (1990).

Environment/lithology:

• 'Brown marly clays and red clay loams with selenite and gypsite; and yellow sands. Mammalian fossils occur in the marly clay at Chuantou near Hsienshuiho.'

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. C. Young and M. N. Bien. 1937. Cenozoic geology of the Kaolan-Yungteng area of Central Kansu. Bulletin - Geological Society of China. 16:221-260 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42540: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
? Paralactaga anderssoni, Heterosminthus orientalis, Protalactaga grabaui
? Paralactaga anderssoni Young 1927 rodent
'identified by Schaub on very slender evidence.'
Heterosminthus orientalis Schaub 1930 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Plesiocricetodon leei, Paracricetulus schaubi
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
A broken lower jaw of a rhinocerotid.
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Listriodon gigas
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium wimani
Gomphotherium wimani Hopwood 1935 gomphothere