Also known as Moc Chau
Where: Son La, Vietnam (20.9° N, 104.6° E: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 104.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hangmon Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• "late Miocene... correlated with the Chinji stage of the Siwalik series and the Baodean/Lufengian Chinese land mammal ages"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; coal and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1998, 1999
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
• fossils were collected "by surface prospecting and also by screen washing"
•Geological Museum of Vietnam (Hanoi) collection
Primary reference: H. H. Covert, M. W. Hamrick, T. Dzanh and K. C. McKinney. 2001. Fossil mammals from the late Miocene of Vietnam. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):633-636 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92771: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Chilotherium anderssoni Ringström 1924 rhinoceros | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
"Chleuastochoerus stehlini" = Sus stehlini
"Chleuastochoerus stehlini" = Sus stehlini Schlosser 1903 pig | |
Dorcatherium minus Lydekker 1876 chevrotain |