Jiegou: Late/Upper Miocene, China
collected 1987

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Agriotherium inexpetans n. sp. Qiu et al. 1991
1 individual
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervocerus sp. (Khomenko 1913)
synonym of Cervavitus
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Honanotherium sp. Bohlin 1927
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu County:Dongxiang
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 103.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 100.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1877 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Linxia Member:4th
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "Baodean" stage
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "red clay with calcareous nodules about 50m thick"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
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:1987
Metadata
Also known as:Agriotherium
Database number:34694
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-16 13:08:00 Last modified:2010-11-08 12:54:52
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-16 13:08:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7930.5% 18460Z.-x. Qiu, J.-y. Xie, and Y. Defa. 1991. Discovery of Late Miocene Agriotherium from Jiegou, Gansu, and its taxonomic implications. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29(4):286-295 [X. Wang/X. Wang/M. Carrano]