Zhangjiaping: Early/Lower Miocene, China
collected 1986-1987

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotheriinae indet.
Qiu et al. 1998
GVL 8717 and 8718
Phyllotillon huangheensis Qiu et al. 1998
Qiu et al. 1998
IVPP V 9960
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Turpanotherium elegans Qiu and Wang 2007
Qiu and Wang 2007
IVPP V 3317
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon lanzhouensis Qiu and Xie 1997
IVPP V11059; GVL 8601-8603; GVL 8701-8705
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu County:Gaolan
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 103.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 101.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xianshuihe Member:middle
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: First white sandstone from the basal part of the middle member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: White sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collection dates:1986-1987
Metadata
Also known as:GL 9514
Database number:175342
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-12-10 04:28:57 Last modified:2016-11-28 06:28:42
Access level:the public Released:2015-12-10 04:28:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57314. Z. Qiu and J. Xie. 1997. A new species of Aprotodon (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 35(4):250-267 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

61014 Z. Qiu, B. Wang, and J. Xie. 1998. Mid-Tertiary chalicothere (Perissodactyla) fossils from Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36(4):297-318 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61005 Z. Qiu and B. Wang. 2007. Paracerathere Fossils of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 193(29):1-396 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]