Heishatou (SSPE) (Pliocene of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.2° N, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 114.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• "slightly earlier" faunal stage than the Tuchentse locality

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SSPE in Sept-Dec 1959

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collection comments:Collected from 29 September to 13 October 1959.

Primary reference: M. Chow and A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1960. Exploration in Inner Mongolia: a preliminary account of the 1959 field work of the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition (SSPE). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28785: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotheriidae indet. Gill 1872 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp., "Sinohippus zitteli" = Anchitherium zitteli
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
"s.l."
"Sinohippus zitteli" = Anchitherium zitteli Schlosser 1903 anchitheriine horse