Houldjin (SSPE): Late/Upper Eocene, China
collected by SSPE 1959
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Perissodactyla indet.
(Owen 1848)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotheriidae indet.
(Marsh 1873)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Paraceratheriidae
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Indricotheriidae indet.
Borissiak 1923
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| synonym of Paraceratheriinae | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Nei Mongol |
| Coordinates: | 43.4° North, 111.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.9° North, 107.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 965 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Qingshuiying | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: JA: said by the authors to be late Oligocene, but unquestionably no younger than late Eocene based on presence of brontothere | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "fossils occur in the upper coarse-grained sandstone and gravel beds of the formation." | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | SSPE | Collection dates: | 1959 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28780 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-24 16:50:40 | Last modified: | 2010-11-08 12:32:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-24 16:50:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7905. | M. Chow and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1960. Exploration in Inner Mongolia: a preliminary account of the 1959 field work of the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition (SSPE). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |