Where: Gansu, China (35.8° N, 103.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hewangjia Formation, MN 13 to MN 13 (7.2 - 4.2 Ma)

• from the lower part of the "30-m-thick" red clay interval of the formation; the upper part is said to be "MN15 of the Ruscinian Age" and the entire section is "6.16 to 4.34 Ma" based on paleomagnetic stratigraphy, which spans MN 13 through MN 14

• 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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77790: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2008

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