Anping: Pleistocene, China
collected 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macacus robustus Young
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus epimticeps Young
Cricetulus varians
Mammalia - Rodentia
Myospalax fontanieri
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus olgae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Meles meles (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis youngi Pei
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Nyctereutes sinensis Schlosser 1903
Vulpes cf. corsac Linnaeus 1768
Mammalia - Moschidae
Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Hydropotes sp. Swinhoe 1870
Capreolus cf. manchuricus
Capreolus sp. Gray 1821
Cervus (Pseudaxis) grayi
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus merki
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Liaoyang
Coordinates: 41.2° North, 123.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 123.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:52 meters
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,red,yellow conglomeratic claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The main quality of the rock in the accumulation is brown-yellow and brown-red subclay with rich grains of calcified tuber and a little of rubble. Crushed stones were at the bottom of the accumulation."
Environment:fissure fill
Geology comments: "accumulated in a crack in the south mountain in Anping."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1976
Metadata
Database number:34667
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-15 11:38:34 Last modified:2010-11-08 12:46:03
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-15 11:38:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9176.5% 30580Z.-h. Zhang, B.-k. Zou, and L.-k. Zhang. 1980. The discovery of fossil mammals at Anping, Liaoyang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18(2):154-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]