Xiaodian, Zhongxiang County, Hubei Province (Miocene of China)

Where: Hubei, China (32.5° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 108.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Early Middle Miocene, Orleanian, MN 5, Shanwangian.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42068: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• The identification of Macaca is controversial, could be a suid.
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet.
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
some teeth.
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet.
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary
1 upper molar.
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Hemicyon (Phoberocyon) youngi