Huangyangtou: Early Miocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aprotodon lanzhouensis
Qiu and Xie 1997
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IVPP V11379 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu |
Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 103.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 101.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Early Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 23.03 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Xianshuihe | Member: | middle | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Second white sandstone from the basal part of the middle member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | white sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: White sandstone | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | IVPP |
Metadata
Also known as: | GL 9510 | ||
Database number: | 175346 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 | Last modified: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-10 04:38:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
57314. | Z. Qiu and J. Xie. 1997. A new species of Aprotodon (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 35(4):250-267 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |