Mochiatai, near Hsienshuiho, Yungteng, Kansu (Miocene of China)

Where: Gansu, China (36.7° N, 103.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hsienshuiho Member (Kansu Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Chiu et al. (1979) say Late Miocene, but other sites of the same date in this paper have been revised to Middle Miocene by Qiu (1990).

Environment/lithology:

• 'Brown marly clays and red clay loams with selenite and gypsite; and yellow sands.'

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimen found by authors.

Primary reference: C. C. Young and M. N. Bien. 1937. Cenozoic geology of the Kaolan-Yungteng area of Central Kansu. Bulletin - Geological Society of China. 16:221-260 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42555: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Rhinoceros sp. incertae sedis.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758 one-horned rhinoceros