Yuanmou formation, second member, Shangnabang: Pleistocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857
Stegodon yuanmouensis You et al. 1978
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan County:Yuanmou
Coordinates: 24.9° North, 100.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° North, 100.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yuanmou Member:second
Local bed:5-17
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Early Quaternary. The thickness of the second member is 314,4 m.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,brown,gray,green,red or brown,yellow unlithified carbonaceous claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Variegated clay, alternated with subclay, silty clay, silt and sand, occasionally with grayish green and grayish black humus clay and some lignite layers
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: lacustrine-fluvial deposits, predominantly lacustrine
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:A lot of plant fossils belong to that collection, but are not listed with their species name: Carya, Euphorbiacae, Rutaceae, Magnoliaceae, Pandanaceae, Apocynaceae, Rafflesiaceae, Nymphaceae, Glyptostrobus, Myrica, Ostryopsis, Castanopsis, Liquidambar, Santalum, Exocarpus, Cyathea, Dicksonia, Cibotium, Hymenophyllum, Pteris, Angiopteris, Ginkgo, Cathaya, Podocarpus, Lycopodium, Gleichenia, Osmunda, Dacrydium, Cedrus, Cryptomeria, Sparganium, Alisma, Typha, Potamogeton, Myriophyllum
Metadata
Also known as:Yuanmo formation
Database number:36584
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:S. Kuemmell Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-06 02:36:16 Last modified:2004-02-06 08:08:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-06 02:36:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9810.5% 30280Q. Pu and F. Qian. 1977. Identification of the Yuanmou fossil-man strata; study of the Yuanmou Formation. Acta Geologica Sinica (= Dizhi xuebao) 1977(1):89-100 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]