Shansi Rhinoceroses - 3: Early/Lower Pleistocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Elasmotherium sp.
Fischer 1808
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Shanxi |
Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 112.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 112.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary - Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Geology comments: No geological information given |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 13479 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-04-01 06:40:12 | Last modified: | 2002-04-01 09:40:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-01 06:40:12 |
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] |