Also known as L12
Where: Shaanxi, China (34.2° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 107.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bahe Formation, MN 10 to MN 10 (9.7 - 7.8 Ma)
• formation is "roughly correlative with the European MN 10 - 11 zonation" and older than Baodean; the new "fossil assemblages are greatly restricted both horizontally and vertically"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1997 - 2001
Primary reference: Z.-Q. Zhang, A. W. Gentry, A. Kaakinen, L.-P. Liu, J. P. Lunkka, Z.-D. Qiu, S. Sen, R. S. Scott, L. Werdelin, S.-H. Zheng, and M. Fortelius. 2002. Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):165-176 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78313: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Mammalia | |
Ochotona cf. lagreli pika | |
Progonomys cf. cathalai Schaub 1938 mouse | |
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
Myocricetodon cf. trerki mouse | |
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cf. Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
Stephanorhinus orientalis rhinoceros | |
Lantiantragus longirostralis n. gen. n. sp., Gazella sp.
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Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole | |
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