Tieersihabahe section (XJ 200207) (Oligocene of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.7° N, 88.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 86.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Suosuoquan Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Base of the Suosuoquan Formation (20 m above above Tieersihabahe

•faunal assemblage Zone I), Suosuoquan faunal assemblage Zone I

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2002; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: S. Bi, J. Meng, S. McLean, W. Wu, X. Ni and J. Ye. 2013. A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. PLoS ONE 8(1):e52625:1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176392: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Proansomys dureensis Bi et al. 2013 mountain beaver
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