List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Protolactaga major
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Abudhabia sp.
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Progonomys cf. cathalai
Schaub 1938
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetidae informal gen. et sp. nov.
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Cricetidae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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Myocricetodon cf. trerki
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Ochotona cf. lagreli
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Protoryx sp.
Forsyth Major 1891
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= Lantiantragus longirostralis n. gen., n. sp.
Chen and Zhang 2004
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus orientalis
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cf. Chilotherium sp.
Ringström 1924
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shaanxi |
| Coordinates: | 34.2° North, 109.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° North, 107.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bahe | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: formation is "roughly correlative with the European MN 10 - 11 zonation" and older than Baodean; the new "fossil assemblages are greatly restricted both horizontally and vertically" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Lithology description: "distal fines [ = mudstone facies?] of a flood basin" | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1997 - 2001 |
| Taxonomic list comments:not the same as older Bahe Formation collections | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | L12 | ||
| Database number: | 78313 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-02-02 15:47:53 | Last modified: | 2008-02-03 13:57:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-02-02 15:47:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26367. | Z.-Q. Zhang, A. W. Gentry, A. Kaakinen, L.-P. Liu, J. P. Lunkka, Z.-D. Qiu, S. Sen, R. S. Scott, L. Werdelin, S.-H. Zheng, and M. Fortelius. 2002. Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):165-176 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 26400 | G.-F. Chen and Z.-Q. Zhang. 2004. Lantiantragus gen. nov. (Urmiatheriinae, Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Bahe Formation, Lantian, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(3):205-215 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |