Hezheng, Gansu Province (Miocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (35.4° N, 103.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 100.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• MN 10, Tortonian, Bahean.

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 42257: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Probably not the full faunal list.
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Dinocrocuta sp. Schmidt-Kittler 1976 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Acerorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros