Linxia Basin (Pleistocene of China)

Where: China (35.9° N, 102.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 101.9° E)

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous lime mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Zan, X. Fang, W. Zhang, M. Yan, and T. Zhang. 2016. Palaeoenvironmental and chronological constraints on the Early Pleistocene mammal fauna from loess deposits in the Linxia Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 148:234-242 [M. Uhen/S. Paxson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190073: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Stephanie Paxson on 27.11.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera zdanskyi Mazak et al. 2011 cat