Wujiacun village: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, China
collected 1979
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon weifangensis n. sp.
Jin 1983
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Mammuthus weifangensis n. sp.
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong | County: | Weixian |
Coordinates: | 31.6° North, 120.7° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° North, 120.7° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 4 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper Middle Pleistocene or lower Late Pleistocene |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "muddy...subsand" | |
Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: "lacustrine" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | none |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1979 |
Metadata
Also known as: | A. weifangensis holotype | ||
Database number: | 34693 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, A. Turner | Enterer: | M. Carrano, H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-09-16 11:56:53 | Last modified: | 2010-11-08 12:52:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-16 11:56:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9190. | 5% 25380 | C. Jin. 1983. A new fossil elephant from Weixian, Shandong province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21(3):255-265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |