Xinjie road cutting (locality 64-lan-044), Lantian, Shaanxi: Serravallian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox minor n. sp. Li 1978
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Stephanocemas sp. Colbert 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Lantien
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 109.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° North, 107.1° 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
Primary lithology:yellow sandstone
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Found in 1964 by the Institute of Geology and measured in cross-section.
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:42754
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-05 05:20:55 Last modified:2004-08-06 06:02:11
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-05 05:20:55
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]