Panxian Dadong: Middle Pleistocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
? Sciurotamias sp. Miller 1901
Trogopterus xanthipes
Belomys pearsoni
Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
Rhizomys sp. Gray 1831
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Leopoldamys edwardsi
Niviventer coufaciandus
Niviventer andersoni
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eothenomys sp. Miller 1896
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Pongo sp. Lacépède 1799
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Megatapirus augustus Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Moschidae
Moschus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Hydropotes sp. Swinhoe 1870
Muntiacus sp. Rafinesque 1815
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Rusa unicolor (Kerr 1792)
original and current combination Cervus unicolor
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Capricornis sp.
Nemorhaedus goral (Hardwicke 1825)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera cf. tigris (Linnaeus 1758)
Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Pseudaelurus sp. Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sinensis Owen 1870
synonym of Pachycrocuta brevirostris
Hyaena licenti Pei 1934
recombined as Pachycrocuta licenti
Crocuta ultima
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
Meles sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David 1869)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Cuon sp. Hodgson 1838
Vulpes cf. vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon paleorientalis
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou
Coordinates: 25.6° North, 104.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.6° North, 104.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene. U-series dating of travertine gives a minimum age for the deposit of 300,000BP.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Geology comments: Dadong is the Middle level cave in a series of three interconnecting caverns stacked within a 230m high hill. The hill itself is situated in a small valley whose floor has an elevation of 1,630m above sea level. The cave entrance is 55m wide and 50m high, faces east, and lies at an elevation of 32.5m above the valley floor. It is a large cavern (Dadong = Grand cave), the main hall measures 220m from front to back and covers 8000 square metres.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: 92 square metres of deposit were excavated.
Metadata
Database number:51100
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:PACED
Created:2005-05-27 05:44:17 Last modified:2010-01-28 17:35:32
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-27 05:44:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13623.PACED W. Huang, X. Si, Y. Hou, S. Miller-Antonio, and L. A. Schepartz. 1995. Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China. Current Anthropology 36(5):844-846 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]