Yingbeihoucun (locality 64007), Lengshuigou, Lantong, Shaanxi: Serravallian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Hispanotherium lintungensis n. sp. Zhai 1978
    = Hispanotherium lingtungensis
Chiu et al. 1979
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846
Listriodon lishanensis n. sp. Lee and Wu 1978
Mammalia - Moschidae
? Micromeryx sp. Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx sp. von Meyer 1834
Mammalia - Bovidae
Oioceros sp. Gaillard 1902
Oioceros lishanensis n. sp. Lee and Wu 1978
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Selenolophodon n. gen. spectabilis (Hopwood 1935)
    = Platybelodon sp. Borissiak 1928
Qiu 1990
intermediate between P. tongxinensis and P. grangeri
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Lantong
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 108.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 106.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lengshuigou
Stratigraphy comments: Originally dated to Middle Miocene (Chow, 1978, Chiu et al. 1979), now MN7, Astaracian, Tunggurian.
The Formation comprises grey-yellow and dark yellow muddy sandstones and terracotta red or grey-green mottled, red-brown sandy mudstones. Largest exposures are approximately 80m.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'Palaeontological material is derived from brown-red sandy mudstone-bearing calcareous concretions.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: First discovered by the Department of Geology of Xibei University. Excavted in 1964 by the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP).
The faunal list in Chiu et al. (1979) is a conflation of 4 localities in the Lengshuigou Formation. Each locality has been entered separately here.
Metadata
Database number:42752
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Collections that are a subset of this one:214903
Created:2004-08-05 04:52:21 Last modified:2004-08-06 06:03:00
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-05 04:52:21
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:

11185PACED C.-S. Chiu, C.-K. Li, and C.-T. Chiu. 1979. The Chinese Neogene - a preliminary review of the mammalian localities and faunas. Annales Geologiques des Pays Hellenica (1)263-272 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
11208PACED Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]