Shansi Rhinoceroses - 1: Late/Upper Miocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Sinotherium simplum n. sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
single M3 (upper) | ||||||||||
Chilotherium sp.
Ringström 1924
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hypohippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus) | ||||||||||
Hipparion spp.
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"2 or 3 species" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Samotherium sp.
Forsyth Major 1888
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Ictitherium sp.
Wagner 1848
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Shanxi |
Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 115.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.9° North, 113.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene | *Local age/stage: | Pontian |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The age estiamtes for the collection are made based on the presense of several taxa characteristic of a Pliocene Hipparion fauna.
JA: the age is unquestionably late Miocene based on the faunal list |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Unknown but thought to be from the red clays of the early Pliocene, Pontian, of the Paote Distirct, where the type specimen of Sinotherium largrelii was found. | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 13477 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-04-01 05:59:21 | Last modified: | 2007-05-24 17:08:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-01 05:59:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6093. | 5% 43020 | M. M. Chow. 1958. New elasmotherine rhinoceroses from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(2-3):131-142 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde] |