Where: shaanxi, China (34.3° N, 108.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 106.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Lengshuigou Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Originally dated to Middle Miocene (Chow, 1978, Chiu et al. 1979), now MN7, Astaracian, Tunggurian.
•The Formation comprises grey-yellow and dark yellow muddy sandstones and terracotta red or grey-green mottled, red-brown sandy mudstones. Largest exposures are approximately 80m.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: First discovered by the Department of Geology of Xibei University. Excavted in 1964 by the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP).
•The faunal list in Chiu et al. (1979) is a conflation of 4 localities in the Lengshuigou Formation. Each locality has been entered separately here.
Primary reference: M. Chow. 1978. Tertiary mammal faunas of the Lantien Region, Shaanxi Province. Professional papers on Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Geological Publishing House, Peking. 7:98-108 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42752: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Listriodon sp., Listriodon lishanensis n. sp.
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846 pig
Listriodon lishanensis n. sp. Lee and Wu 1978 pig | |
? Micromeryx sp. Lartet 1851 musk deer | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe | |
Palaeomeryx sp. von Meyer 1834 ruminant | |
Oioceros sp., Oioceros lishanensis n. sp.
Oioceros sp. Gaillard 1902 antelope
Oioceros lishanensis n. sp. Lee and Wu 1978 antelope |