Shenxian Cave, Huifeng Mountain, Lishui County: Pleistocene - Holocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
several species
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovinae indet. (Gray 1821)
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta ultima
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Paguma larvata (Smith 1827)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Nyctereutes procyonoides (Gray 1834)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
Meles leucurus Hodgson 1847
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scaptochirus moschatus Milne-Edwards 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetulus sp. Milne-Edwards 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus rattus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799
Gastropoda
Pulmonata indet. Cuvier 1817
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Jiangsu County:Lishui
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 119.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° North, 119.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part
Radiocarbon date of 11200 +/- 1000 or 9250 +/- 1000 BC has been yielded.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,red unlithified sandy claystone
Secondary lithology:hardground "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Red-brown sandy clay, not lithified, no layering, occasionally some calcareous breccia, some quartzicic pebbles and fragments of drop stone. The fossils and fragments of coal are scattered around in this layer (1,5-2,5 m in thickness). At the bottom of this layer there is a hardground of drop stone, about 10 cm thick. At some places there is 20 cm of clay between these two layers. In the drop stone have been found fossils, too.
Environment:cave
Geology comments: The cave is within carboniferous limestone.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:37064
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell, J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-27 01:18:31 Last modified:2008-06-13 14:37:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-27 01:18:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9935.5% 30640Y. Li and C. Lei. 1980. Fossil animals discovered in Shenxian [Fairies'] Cave, Lishui County, Jiangsu Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (=Gujizhui Dongwu yu Gurenlei) 18(1):59-64 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]