Shuizigou (locality 64018), Gongwangling, Xumiao, Lantian, Shaanxi: Turolian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Chilotherium habereri
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervavitus (Cervocerus) novorossae
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Honanotherium sp.
Bohlin 1927
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | shaanxi | County: | Lantien |
| Coordinates: | 34.2° North, 109.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° North, 108.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Turolian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lantian | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Probably Turolian - overlies the Bahe Formation which is Vallesian (based on Qiu, 1990), previously thought to be Pliocene. The Lantian Formation is 'composed of dark red, dark tan clays and tan-yellow sandy conglomerates. The clays contain large amounts of carbonate concretions. After weathering, surficial colour changes to gray-yellow or grey white and the clay units are perched as spongy hummocks.' Sedimentary thickness is generally between 10m - 40m and reaching nearly 70m at most. |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Belongs to the 'Hipparion fauna' in the broadest sense. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 42860 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-08-06 03:57:08 | Last modified: | 2004-08-06 07:00:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-06 03:57:08 |
| 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] |