Shansi Rhinoceroses - 4: Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Elasmotherium peii n. sp.
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shanxi County:Pinglo
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 111.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 111.6° 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 - Middle Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene
Key time interval:Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: fossil recovered form the yellow sandy beds underlying the oessic deposits of the northern bank of the Huangho (Yellow) River
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Collection size:1 individuals
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:13480
Authorizer:W. Clyde Enterer:J. Finarelli
Modifier:J. Finarelli Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-04-01 07:25:08 Last modified:2002-04-01 10:25:08
Access level:the public Released:2002-04-01 07:25:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6093.5% 43020M. M. Chow. 1958. New elasmotherine rhinoceroses from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(2-3):131-142 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]