Feijiaxinzhuang (locality 63701), Lantian, Shaanxi: Turolian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sphaerica Wiman 1930
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:shaanxi County:Lantien
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 109.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 108.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
Stratigraphy comments: Probably Turolian (late Miocene), regarded as Pliocene in Chow (1978), but most sites regarded as Pliocene have been revised to Miocene (see Qui, 1990).
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:42862
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-06 04:12:17 Last modified:2004-08-06 07:22:58
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-06 04:12:17
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:

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]