Shansi Rhinoceroses - 3: Early/Lower Pleistocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Elasmotherium sp.
Fischer 1808
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shanxi |
| Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 112.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 112.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary - Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Geology comments: No geological information given |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13479 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
| Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-04-01 06:40:12 | Last modified: | 2002-04-01 09:40:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-01 06:40:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6093. | 5% 43020 | M. M. Chow. 1958. New elasmotherine rhinoceroses from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(2-3):131-142 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde] |