1 km west of Feiyue Railway station: Late/Upper Oligocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Turpanotherium elegans n. gen., n. sp. Qiu and Wang 2007
IVPP V 3191 - type
Paraceratherium lipidus n. sp. Xu and Wang 1978
corrected as Paraceratherium lepidum
TP 9401; referred specimen: TP 9402
Dzungariotherium turfanensis n. sp. Xu and Wang 1978
IVPP V 4340 - type
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Xinjiang County:Shanshan
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 90.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.0° North, 88.3° 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:Taoshuyuanzi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of Taoshuyuanzi Fm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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
Also known as:IVPP Loc. 64081
Database number:182888
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-28 06:49:17 Last modified:2016-11-28 06:51:07
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-28 06:49:17
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]