Where: Gansu, China (35.8° N, 103.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 101.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hewangjia Formation, MN 15 (4.2 - 3.2 Ma)

• from the upper part of the "30-m-thick" red clay interval of the formation; said to be "MN15 of the Ruscinian Age" based on paleomagnetic stratigraphy

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1998; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: T. Deng. 2005. New cranial material of Shansirhinus (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from the Lower Pliocene of the Linxia Basin in Gansu, China. Geobios 38(3):301-313 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77789: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2008

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