Danghe River (IVPP Loc. DH 200102) (Oligocene of China)

Also known as Taben Buluk; Dingdanggou fauna

Where: Gansu, China (40.5° N, 94.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 90.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paoniuquan Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "lower part of the Paoniuquan Formation"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1999, 2001; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang and Z.-X. Qiu. 2004. Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(2):130-143 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77998: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• replaces list of Wang et al. 2003 (Vert PalAsiat 41:66-75) with erroneous IDs ? Aprotodon sp., Phylotillon sp., and cf. Sivameryx sp.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Oligosciurus dangheensis n. gen. n. sp.
Oligosciurus dangheensis n. gen. n. sp. Wang and Qiu 2004 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 rodent
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Coelodontomys asiaticus Wang 2001 mole rat
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Tataromys cf. sigmodon Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
Karakoromys decessus Matthew and Granger 1923 gundi
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Parasminthus sp. Bohlin 1946 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus gobiensis Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Palaeoscaptor sp. Matthew and Granger 1924 hedgehog
Palaeoscaptor cf. acridens Matthew and Granger 1924 hedgehog
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Parabrachyodus sp. Forster-Cooper 1915 anthracothere
 Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
Allacerops sp. Wood 1932 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Schizotherium ordosium Hu 1959 chalicothere