Houshuigou, bed 6, Baotou: Late/Upper Pleistocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus canadensis Erxleben 1777
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus przewalskii Poliakov 1881
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol County:Baotou
Coordinates: 40.7° North, 110.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.7° North, 110.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pleistocene; thickness of bed 6 is 1,5-2 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,yellow unlithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray,green unlithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Yellow, fine sand with interlayerings of gray-green mudstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:35930
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-01-12 05:55:41 Last modified:2006-08-14 01:10:44
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-12 05:55:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9658. W. Huang, Y. Li, and Z. Nie. 1989. Two new species of fossil Megaceros from North China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(1):53-64 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]