Where: Gansu, China (35.6° N, 103.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 99.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hujialiang Formation, MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)
• "lower part of the Laogou section... Tungurian Stage of Middle Miocene" and equivalent to MN6
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, yellow sandstone and red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: "about 500 isolated teeth" of Platybelodon and Gomphotherium, which "are the dominant elements"; Hispanotherium matritense is represented by 20 teeth
•collector, date of collection, and museum repository not indicated
Primary reference: T. Deng. 2003. New material of Hispanotherium matritense (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from Laogou of Hezheng County (Gansu, China), with special reference to the Chinese Middle Miocene elasmotheres. Geobios 36:141-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71105: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.04.2007, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Platybelodon grangeri Osborn 1929 gomphothere
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
Amphicyon tairumensis bear-dog | |
"Hemicyon teilhardi" = Plithocyon teilhardi
"Hemicyon teilhardi" = Plithocyon teilhardi Colbert 1939 bear | |
Percrocuta tungurensis carnivoran | |
Anchitherium gobiensis anchitheriine horse | |
Alicornops sp. Ginsburg and Guerin 1979 rhinoceros
Hispanotherium matritense de Prado 1864 rhinoceros | |
Palaeotragus tungurensis giraffe | |
Pliopithecus sp. Gervais 1849 monkey |