Gaopocun Village (locality 64005), Shiligou, Lantian, Shaanxi: Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolaginae indet. Dice 1929
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Lantien
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 109.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 105.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
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: mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: interbedded purple-red mudstones and white sandstones.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Locality discovered in 1964 by the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) Lantian research team.
Metadata
Also known as:Lantien
Database number:42748
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-05 03:52:49 Last modified:2016-08-01 08:19:28
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-05 03:52:49
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]