Where: Shaanxi, China (34.2° N, 109.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 108.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lantian Formation, MN 12 to MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• formation is Baodean and from "the later part of the late Miocene" (after MN 11 and therefore MN 12 or MN 13); the new "fossil assemblages are greatly restricted both horizontally and vertically"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z.-Q. Zhang, A. W. Gentry, A. Kaakinen, L.-P. Liu, J. P. Lunkka, Z.-D. Qiu, S. Sen, R. S. Scott, L. Werdelin, S.-H. Zheng, and M. Fortelius. 2002. Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40(3):165-176 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78331: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.02.2008

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