Luosixuan cave, bed 1, Jishou county (Pleistocene of China)

Where: Hunan, China (28.3° N, 109.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 109.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The age of Late Pleistocene is not sure.

•There are four layers in the cave, this one is the uppermost.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, condensed lime mudstone and unlithified conglomerate

• Calcareous loess, hardly condensed, with gravel; at the bottom of this layer is a small band of pebbles, which are relatively small.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• the fossils are collected by amateurs

Primary reference: L. Wang, Y. Lin, S. Chang and J. Yuan. 1982. Mammalian fossils found in northwest part of Hunan province and their significance. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (= Gujizhui dongwu yu gurenlei) 20(4):350-358 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36729: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 11.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus thibetanus Cuvier 1823 Asian black bear
Ailuropoda melanoleuca David 1869 giant panda
ssp. baconi
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Arctonyx collaris Cuvier 1825 hog badger
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovis sp. Linnaeus 1758 sheep
Bubalus sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 water buffalo
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Megatapirus augustus Matthew and Granger 1923 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870 one-horned rhinoceros
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
 Rodentia - Spalacidae
Rhizomys sp. Gray 1831 greater bamboo rat
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799 macaque
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Stegodon orientalis" = Stegodon insignis
"Stegodon orientalis" = Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant