Huangyangtou: Early/Lower Oligocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Paraceratheriidae
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Paraceratherium sp.
Forster Cooper 1911
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| IVPP V 3322 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu |
| Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 103.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.7° North, 99.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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: | Xianshuihe | Member: | Lower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Yellow sandstone | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182883 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-28 06:04:06 | Last modified: | 2016-11-28 06:04:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-28 06:04:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61005. | Z. Qiu and B. Wang. 2007. Paracerathere Fossils of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 193(29):1-396 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |