Upper Red Clays, Nantan, Hohsien, Shansi (Pliocene of China)

Also known as Anlo

Where: Shanxi, China (35.7° N, 111.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 110.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Poate Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Middle Pliocene, Poate Formation. Two levels, the upper red clays and lower freshwater limestone beds. Red clays entered here.

Environment/lithology:

• Red clays.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. S. Tung, W. P. Huang, and Z. D. Qui. 1975. Hipparion fauna in Anlo, Hohsien, Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13(1):34-56 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42559: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Possibly not the full faunal list.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium fenhoense n. sp. rhinoceros
? Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. houfenense hipparionine horse
Hipparion richthofeni Koken 1885 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervinae indet. Goldfuss 1820 deer
Cervavitus sp. Chomenko 1913 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella gaudryi Schlosser 1904 gazelle
Antilope sp. Pallas 1766 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
 Carnivora - Felidae
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Ictitherium wongi hyaena
V 4656.
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon sp. Vacek 1877 mastodon
V 4658.