20 km south of Anjihai Bridge: Late/Upper Oligocene, China
collected 1964
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Paraceratheriidae
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Dzungariotherium orgosensis n. gen., n. sp.
Chiu 1973
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| IVPP V3190 - holotype | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° North, 85.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.0° North, 83.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shawan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Originally listed as coming from Changi Formation, but Qiu and Wang (2007) state that it comes from the Shawan Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown not reported |
| Lithology description: brown beds | |
| 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: | 1964 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182568 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-08 08:00:40 | Last modified: | 2016-11-28 06:12:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-08 08:00:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60745. | C.-S. Chiu. 1973. A New Genus of Giant Rhinoceros from Oligocene of Dzungaria, Sinkiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 11(2):182-191 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 60744 | C.-S. Chiu. 1965. First Discovery of Lophiomeryx in China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(4):395-398 [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] |