Pingliang county (Miocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (35.5° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 105.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The age of Late Miocene is not quite sure.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

• No: V 4829.1, V 4829.2

Primary reference: W. Wu and G. Chen. 1976. A new schizothere genus from the latter part of the Tertiary of Pingliang County, Gansu Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (= Gujizhui Dongwu yu Gurenlei) 14(3):194-197 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37002: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 23.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
"Gansuodon pingliangense n. gen. n. sp." = Ancylotherium
"Gansuodon pingliangense n. gen. n. sp." = Ancylotherium chalicothere