Shanwang Bed sw2, Linchu district, Shantung province: Burdigalian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Pseudorasbora macrocephala
Yan et al. 1983
Shandongornis shanwangensis
Yan et al. 1983
Linquornis giangtis
Yan et al. 1983
Meinia asiatica
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia - Rodentia - Diatomyidae
Diatomys shantungensis Li 1974
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon confucianus n. sp.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felinae indet. Trouessart 1885
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Plesiaceratherium gracile n. gen., n. sp. Young 1937
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834
Yan et al. 1983
Teleoceratini indet. Hay 1902
Yan et al. 1983
spelled with current rank as Teleoceratina
Brachypotherium shanwangensis (Wang 1965)
Yan et al. 1983
recombined as Diaceratherium shanwangensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Palaeotapirus xiejiaheensis
Yan et al. 1983
Anchitherium sp. von Meyer 1844
Yan et al. 1983
    = aff. Palaeotapirus xiejiaheensis
Qiu 1990
"Palaeotapirus", the distal metapodial assigned to Anchititherium has been reidentified as Palaeotapirus. Therefore Anchitherium is absent from the assemblage.
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Stephanocemas colberti n. sp.
Stephanocemas cf. thomsoni
Yan et al. 1983
Lagomeryx teilhardi
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
? Palaeomeryx sp. von Meyer 1834
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia
Heterocemas simpsoni n. gen., n. sp.
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. n. gen., n. sp. Gray 1821
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia
Palaeochoerus cf. pascoei
Yan et al. 1983
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Shanwangia unexpectula
Yan et al. 1983
Reptilia - Testudines
Trionychoidea indet. Fitzinger 1826
Yan et al. 1983
Amphichelydia indet. Lydekker 1889
Yan et al. 1983
Reptilia - Colubridae
Mionatrix diatomus
Yan et al. 1983
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Sinanas diatomas Yeh 1980
Yan et al. 1983
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Youngornis gracilis
Yan et al. 1983
Reptilia
Alligator luicus n. sp. Li and Wang 1987
Li and Wang 1987
LPM 850001 - type (partial skull and postcrania)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Procynops miocenicus Young 1965
Yan et al. 1983
3rd metatarsal and phalanges.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo linchuensis
Yan et al. 1983
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana basaltica n. sp. Young 1936
Young 1936
nomen dubium belonging to Rana
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Leuciscus micenicus
Yan et al. 1983
Barbus linchuensis
Yan et al. 1983
Barbus scotti
Yan et al. 1983
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 118.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 116.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shanwang Member:Middle
Local section:2 Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: MN6, Aragonian, Middle Miocene. There are six layers, which are grouped into 3 members. These members contain 3 fossil-bearing beds. SW2 is the richest level and is 20-30m thick.

He et al. 2011: Samples SW2007 and SW01 from the basalt just below the fossil-bearing diatomaceous sediments of the Shanwang Formation yield near plateau age of 17–18 Ma. Sample SW8-13 from a lava flow in the Yaoshan Formation yields an age of 17.3 ± 1.4 Ma (Fig. 6b). These age determinations suggest that, the age of the Shanwang biota is ca. 17 Ma, which is late Burdigalian Age of the Early Miocene in the widely-used Geologic Time Scale 2004 (Gradstein et al., 2004). The age of 17 Ma presented in this study of the Shanwang biota supports previous interpretations that this mammal fauna can be correlated with MN4 in the middle Orleanian of the European Land Mammal Age (Steininger et al., 1996; Steininger, 1999; Agustí et al., 2001), the late Hemingfordian of the North American Land Mammal Age (Woodburne and Swisher, 1995; Alroy, 2000), and the Santacrucian of the South American Land Mammal Ages (Flynn and Swisher, 1995).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 'Gray yellow and grayish white gravelly sandstone, mud stone, shale and diatomite. The shore deposits consist of coarser clasolites which are gradually transferred into mudstone and shales towards the centre of the basin. Containing rich fossil diatoms, phosphate concretions and pyritic particles. (Yan et al. 1983)'
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Flora indicates 'climate in the coastal region of China was then more humid and one of sub-tropical belt, while central parts of the continent were comparatively drier.'
Taxonomic list comments:The fauna needs revising. The following species are listed by Qiu, but he does not state which member they are from: Ansomys shanwangensis (aplodontid), Plesiosciurus aff. sinensis (sciurid), Hemicyon (Phoberocyon) youngi, Ursavus orientalis, Thaumastocyoninae indet., Probsicidea indet., Brachypotherium sp., Chalicotherium grande, Palaeomeryx tricornis, Lagomeryx spp., Suinae.
Metadata
Database number:41810
Authorizer:A. Turner, P. Mannion Enterer:H. O'Regan, P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-21 03:34:48 Last modified:2022-02-10 09:37:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 03:34:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11331.PACED C. C. Young. 1937. On a Miocene Mammalian Fauna from Shantung. Bulletin - Geological Society of China 17(2):209-244 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

11185PACED C.-S. Chiu, C.-K. Li, and C.-T. Chiu. 1979. The Chinese Neogene - a preliminary review of the mammalian localities and faunas. Annales Geologiques des Pays Hellenica (1)263-272 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
79684 H. He, C. Deng, Y. Pan, T. Deng, Z. Luo, J. Sun, and R. Zhu. 2011. New 40Ar/39Ar dating results from the Shanwang Basin, eastern China: Constraints on the age of the Shanwang Formation and associated biota. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 187:66-75 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]
15210 Y. Hong and W. Wang. 1985. Miocene Diptera and Hymenoptera (Insecta) of Shanwang, Shandong Province, China. Memoirs of the Beijing Natural History Museum 31:1-22 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/R. Day]
15069 Y. C. Hong. 1979. Oxycephala gen. nov., a Miocene Homoptera (Insecta) from Linqu of Shandong. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(3):301-307 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/M. Clapham]
15209 Y. C. Hong. 1983. Discovery of Miocene Scorpius from the diatoms of Shanwang in Shandong Province. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:18-21 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/M. Clapham]
15208 Y. C. Hong. 1984. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:1-15 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/M. Clapham]
50144 J. Li and B. Wang. 1987. A new species of Alligator from Shanwang, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 25(3):199-207 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
38253 A. Nel, G. Bechly, E. Jarzembowski and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1998. A revision of the fossil petalurid dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Petalurida). Paleontologia Lombarda 10:1-68 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]
38446 A. Nel, X. Martínez-Delclòs, F. Escuillé and P. Brisac. 1994. Les Aeshnidae fossiles: Etat actuel des connaissances (Odonata, Anisoptera). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 194(2/3):143-186 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
11208PACED Z. Qiu. 1990. The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York. 527-556 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
11442PACED D. Yan, Z. Qiu, and Z. Meng. 1983. Miocene Stratigraphy and mammals of Shanwang, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21(3):210-222 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
177315% 48860C. C. Young. 1936. A Miocene fossil frog from Shantung. Geol. Soc. China, B. 15(2):189-197 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell]
16579 J. F. Zhang. 1989. Fossil Insects From Shanwang, Shandong, China 1-459 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/M. Clapham]