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
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Palaeolaginae indet.
Dice 1929
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Mammalia
- Artiodactyla
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Artiodactyla indet.
Owen 1848
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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] |