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