Lantian S6 of Liu et al. 1978: MN 10 - MN 11, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Tetralophodon exoletus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion chiai Liu et al. 1978
Hipparion weihoense Liu et al. 1978
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus cf. decipiens
"Paleotragus cf. decipiens"
Mammalia - Bovidae
Shaanxispira chowi Liu et al. 1978
see common names

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
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 10 - MN 11
Age range of interval:9.70000 - 7.75000 m.y. ago
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:paleosol/pedogenic siltstone
Lithology description: S6 is shown at the same level as Loc. 30, which is "a slumped block from pedogenically altered siltstone"
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:78320
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-02 17:24:07 Last modified:2008-02-03 13:59:00
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-02 17:24:07
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]