Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 103.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• indicated on chart as "Lower" Pleistocene, based on faunal correlations
Environment/lithology: eolian; fine-grained, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
• collected by Walter Granger in a single day during the winter of 1926 - 1927
Primary reference: E. H. Colbert. 1940. Pleistocene mammals from the Ma Kai Valley of northern Yunnan, China. American Museum Novitates 1099:1-10 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71055: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758 one-horned rhinoceros | |
Equus yunnanensis n. sp.
Equus yunnanensis n. sp. Colbert 1940 horse | |
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer species A ("very probably one of the Rusa group"), 7 specimens, and species B ("smaller"), 11 specimens
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Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857 elephant | |
Reptilia | |
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