Gaopocun (Locality 64004), Shilihegou, Lantian, Shaanxi: Serravallian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Lagomeryx complicidens Young 1964
Mammalia - Bovidae
Antilopinae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Platybelodon grangeri Osborn 1929
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Lantien
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 109.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 107.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koujiacun Member:upper
Stratigraphy comments: MN6, Early Middle Miocene, Astaracian, Tunggurian, Tongxin local fauna. The Koujiacun Formation is a set of tan-red or tan-yellow mudstones, sandy mudstones and sandstones. Approximately 60m thick. There are two fossiliferous members, the upper unit has purple-red and tan-red mudstones.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: purple-red and tan-red mudstones.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Lagomeryx originally published by Young (1964). The faunal lists in Qiu (1990) and Chiu et al. (1979) are a conflation of all 4 localities in the Koujiacun Formation. Each locality has been entered separately here.
Metadata
Also known as:Lantien
Database number:42851
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-06 02:47:16 Last modified:2004-08-06 05:58:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-06 02:47:16
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]