Houshuigou, bed 2, Baotou: Late/Upper 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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Coelodonta antiquitatis
(Blumenbach 1799)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus canadensis
Erxleben 1777
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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: | 2 | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Pleistocene; thickness of bed 2 is 1 m. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow unlithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: yellow sandlayer, interbedded with lenses of mudstone and pebbles | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 35965 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | S. Kuemmell |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-12 07:12:57 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 01:10:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-12 07:12:57 |
| 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] |