GL 9605 (Dahonggou) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (36.1° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 99.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Xianshuihe Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone

• yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1996; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Z.-X. Qiu and B.-Y. Wang. 1999. Allacerops (Rhinoceroroidea, Perissodactyla), its discovery in China and its systematic position. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 37(1):48-61 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176019: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
Allacerops cf. turgaica Borissiak 1915 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V9964