Tongshan, Wannan prefecture: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cf. subcristata
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macacus sp. (Lacépède 1799)
original and current combination Macaca
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bubalus sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
ssp. ultima
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Arctonyx cf. rostratus Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus thibetanus Cuvier 1823
ssp. kokeni
? Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David 1869)
ssp. fovealis
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
? Palaeoloxodon namadicus
synonym of Elephas
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Anhui
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 118.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° North, 118.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphy comments: late Middle Pleistocene to Upper Pleistocene.
bed 3 in the lcoal section
The wall of the cave has long ago broken down, so that a detailed investigation is not possible.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,red unlithified sandy claystone
Secondary lithology:pebbly unlithified sandstone
Lithology description: Brown-red sandy clay, intercalated with sand and pebbles, occasionally some big calcareous pebbles; altogether 2,5-3 m thick.
Environment:karst indet.
Geology comments: It is not quite clear if the fossil locality is a cave or a fissure.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36868
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell, J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-18 04:24:51 Last modified:2008-06-13 14:42:30
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-18 04:24:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9871.5% 30180Y. Ye and D. Yan. 1975. A new locality of Quaternary mammalian fossils at Tongshan in the south of Anhui Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (=Gujizhui dongwu yu gurenlei) 13(3):195-196 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]