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
Archidiskodon weifangensis n. sp. Jin 1983
1 specimen
    = Mammuthus weifangensis n. sp.
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% 25380C. Jin. 1983. A new fossil elephant from Weixian, Shandong province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21(3):255-265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]