Dongpaoshan, bed 3: Early/Lower Pleistocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hylobatidae
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Hylobates sp.
Illiger 1811
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= Hylobatidae indet.
Gray 1870
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Alroy 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Macaca sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Atherurus sp.
Cuvier 1829
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Hystrix subcristata
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Hystrix magna
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Arctonyx collaris
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus thibetanus
Cuvier 1823
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca
(David 1869)
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| subsp.nov. wulingshanensis | ||||||||||
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= Ailuropoda wulingshanensis
Wang et al. 1982
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Jin et al. 2007 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros sinensis
Owen 1870
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sinensis
Owen 1870
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Muntiacus sp.
Rafinesque 1815
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bubalus sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus xiaozhu
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium serridemtoides
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| maybe only in the collection of Dongpaoshan, bed 1 | ||||||||||
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Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon orientalis
Owen 1870
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| synonym of Stegodon insignis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Hunan | County: | Baojing |
| Coordinates: | 28.7° North, 109.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.6° North, 109.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 285 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Early Pleistocene; thickness 30 cm | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | condensed,fine,yellow unlithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: light-yellow fine sandy soil, condensed | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: The cave is small: 4 m deep, 7 m broad, 2 m high. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: cultural museum of Baojing county | |
| Taxonomic list comments:It is not stated in the text, if Gomphotherium serridemtoides is only found in bed 1, or if it is found in bed 1 and 3. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Wuling | ||
| Database number: | 36819 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | S. Kuemmell, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-17 05:03:42 | Last modified: | 2007-06-23 21:17:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-17 05:03:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9836. | 5% 26640 | L. Wang, Y. Lin, S. Chang and J. Yuan. 1982. Mammalian fossils found in northwest part of Hunan province and their significance. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (= Gujizhui dongwu yu gurenlei) 20(4):350-358 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] |
Secondary references:
| 29343 | J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 24689 | C. Jin, R. L. Ciochon, W. Dong, R. M. Hunt, Jr., J. Liu, M. Jaeger, and Q. Zhu. 2007. The first skull of the earliest giant panda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:10932-10937 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |