Tongshan, Wannan prefecture: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix cf. subcristata
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Macacus sp.
(Lacépède 1799)
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original and current combination Macaca | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros sinensis
Owen 1870
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bubalus sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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ssp. ultima | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Arctonyx cf. rostratus
Matthew and Granger 1923
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus thibetanus
Cuvier 1823
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ssp. kokeni | ||||||||||
? Ailuropoda melanoleuca
(David 1869)
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ssp. fovealis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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? Palaeoloxodon namadicus
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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% 30180 | Y. 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] |