Tabchintala (SSPE) (Miocene to of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.7° N, 112.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 111.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Xianshuihe Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• "probably the same horizon" as the Tung Gur 1959 locality

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone and pebbly, red mudstone

• "The lower section is 217 m of orange-red, brick red quartz sands grading to fine sands that unconformably overlie the Qingshuiying Fm. The upper section is 55 m of light red, orange-red gravelly mudstones grading to quartz sandstones and calcareous concretions."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SSPE in 1959

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28783: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Placentalia -
Artiodactyla indet.
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate
 Proboscidea - Mastodontidae
Mastodontidae indet.
Mastodontidae indet. Gray 1821 proboscidean