Where: Shanxi, China (41.0° N, 115.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 113.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• The age estiamtes for the collection are made based on the presense of several taxa characteristic of a Pliocene Hipparion fauna.
•JA: the age is unquestionably late Miocene based on the faunal list
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. M. Chow. 1958. New elasmotherine rhinoceroses from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(2-3):131-142 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13477: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 01.04.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sinotherium simplum n. sp., Chilotherium sp.
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros | |
Hypohippus sp. Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle | |
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe | |
Ictitherium sp. Wagner 1848 hyaena |