Danghe River (IVPP Loc. DH 200103) (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 77999: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus pusillus Teilhard de Chardin 1926 rabbit
Desmatolagus gobiensis Matthew and Granger 1923 rabbit
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Coelodontomys asiaticus Wang 2001 mole rat