Where: Gansu, China (37.1° N, 103.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 102.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)
• Late Miocene, MN12-13, Baodean. At the time the paper was written it was regarded as Pliocene. Extremely thick exposures approx. 200m.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Some specimens were bought from a Songshan drugstore.
Primary reference: S. Zheng. 1982. Some Pliocene mammalian fossils from Songshan 2 and 3 (Tianzhu, Gansu) and the Songshan Fauna. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20(3):216-227 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42675: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Heterosminthus simplicidens, Heterosminthus gansus, Paralactaga minor, Protalactaga cf. tunggurensis
Heterosminthus simplicidens rodent
Heterosminthus gansus Zheng 1982 rodent
Paralactaga minor rodent
Protalactaga cf. tunggurensis Wood 1936 rodent | |
Spalacinae indet. Thomas 1896 blind mole | |
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Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat | |
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Gazella gaudryi Schlosser 1904 gazelle
Antilope sp. Pallas 1766 antelope
Sinotragus sp. Bohlin 1935 antelope | |
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"Chilotherium (Acerorhinus) tianzhuense n. sp." = Shansirhinus ringstromi, Chilotherium (Chilotherium) habereri, Chilotherium sp., Chilotherium (Chilotherium) anderssoni
"Chilotherium (Acerorhinus) tianzhuense n. sp." = Shansirhinus ringstromi Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
Chilotherium (Chilotherium) habereri rhinoceros
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
Chilotherium (Chilotherium) anderssoni Ringström 1924 rhinoceros | |
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