Zhanjiaping, Gansu Province: Burdigalian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Tachyoryctoides sp. Bohlin 1937
1 specimen
1 left madible, no teeth. very large.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon sp. Forster-Cooper 1915
1 enormously widened symphysis with tusks and several isolated tusks.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Indricotheriidae indet. Borissiak 1923
synonym of Paraceratheriinae
teeth fragments and 1 scaphoid.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
? Phyllotillon sp. Pilgrim 1910
2 specimens
1 edentulous skull, 1 right upper M3.
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
several premolar fragments and 2 upper M2 (huge).
    = Hyaenodon weilini n. sp. Wang et al. 2005
Wang et al. 2005
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
some tusk fragments.
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 103.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 101.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xianshuihe
Stratigraphy comments: Early Miocene, MN 3, Orleanian, Shanwangian. The basal part of the third formation of a thick continental series of the Lanzhou basin, called the Xianshuihe Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Found in 1987.
Metadata
Database number:42065
Authorizer:A. Turner, M. Uhen Enterer:H. O'Regan, M. Uhen
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-23 04:13:36 Last modified:2004-07-23 07:13:37
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-23 04:13:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11208.PACED Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

14564 X. Wang, Z. Qiu, and B. Wang. 2005. Hyaenodonts and carnivorans from the early Oligocene to early Miocene of the Xianshuihe Formation, Lanzhou Basin, Gansu Province, China. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]