XJ99031: Early/Lower Oligocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Desmatolagus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Cyclomylus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Cyclomylus lohensis Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Karakoromys decessus Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus sp. Viret 1926
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetops dormitor Matthew and Granger 1923
Eucricetodon sp. Thaler 1966
Mammalia
Junggaroperadectes burqinensis n. gen., n. sp. Ni et al. 2007
Ni et al. 2007
Holotype: IVPP V14410, right upper M2
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Xinjiang
Coordinates: 47.8° North, 86.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.1° North, 83.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Keziletuogayi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Shandgolian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: yellowish green sandstones with variegated mudstones (Ye et al. 2005).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:99031, XJ 99031
Database number:180951
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion, G. Varnham
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-08-10 07:02:45 Last modified:2022-03-30 09:15:18
Access level:the public Released:2016-08-10 07:02:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60085. J. Ye, J. Meng, W.-Y. Wu and X.-J. Ni. 2005. Late Eocene-early Oligocene lithological and biological Stratigraphy in the Burqin region of Xinjiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 43(1):49-60 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

81049 X. Ni, J. Meng, W. Wu and J. Ye. 2007. A new Early Oligocene peradectine marsupial (Mammalia) from the Burqin region of Xinjiang, China. Naturwissenschaften 94:237-241 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]