Xushahegou (locality 63705), nr. Maoxicun village, southeast of Xi'an, Shaanxi: Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene, China
collected 1963

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Sianodon bahoensis Xu 1965
Xu 1965 1 individual
recombined as Cadurcodon bahoensis
IG 59003
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Xi'an
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 108.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.0° North, 104.8° East
Time
Period:Paleogene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 28.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bailuyuan Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: There are three members in the Bailuyuan Formation, the upper, middle and lower. Fossils have been found in the upper and lower members, which are some 200m apart. The fauna in the upper member is found in large sandstone concretions predominantly in mudstones interbedded with white coarse-grained sandstones.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: large sandstone concretions predominantly in mudstones interbedded with white coarse-grained sandstones.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection dates:1963
Collection method comments: Specimen found in 1963 by the Lantian research team of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP).
Metadata
Also known as:Shahezigou, Xinjiezhen; Lantian
Database number:42690
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-04 09:36:52 Last modified:2016-08-01 09:33:52
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-04 09:36:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11354.PACED M. Chow. 1978. Tertiary mammal faunas of the Lantien Region, Shaanxi Province. Professional papers on Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Geological Publishing House, Peking. 7:98-108 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

60026 Y.-X. Xu. 1965. A New Genus of Amynodont from the Eocene of Lantian, shensi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(1):83-86 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]