Shagou Formation, Banguo Basin, Yuanmou District, Yunnan (Pliocene of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.7° N, 101.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 101.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Shagou Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Upper Pliocene.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Material collected in winter 1971 and 1972.

Primary reference: Y. J. Tang, Y. Z. You, H. Liu and Y. Pan. 1974. New materials of Pliocene mammals from Banguo Basin of Yuanmou, Yunnan and their stratigraphical significance. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 12(1):60-67 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42561: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Chilotherium yunnanensis n. sp." = Shansirhinus ringstromi
"Chilotherium yunnanensis n. sp." = Shansirhinus ringstromi Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
1 right maxilla with P2-M1.
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
? Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaenidae indet. Gray 1821 hyaena
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydriodon cf. falconeri Pilgrim 1932 otter
 Proboscidea - Stegodontidae
Stegolophodon banguoensis n. sp. proboscidean
1 left upper M3.
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857 elephant
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon sp." = Mammut
"Mastodon sp." = Mammut Blumenbach 1799 mastodon