IVPP locality 78027, Nanchuanho: Early/Lower Miocene, China
collected 1978

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Sinolagomys pachygnathus Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 23 specimens
Sinolagomys cf. pachygnathus Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 1 specimen
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Li and Qiu 1980 2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus xiningensis Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 1 specimen
Plesiosminthus huangshuiensis Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Plesiosminthus lajeensis Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 1 specimen
recombined as Litodonomys lajeensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Tachyoryctoides kokonorensis Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 10 specimens
synonym of Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon youngi Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Li and Qiu 1980 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Tataromys suni Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 48 specimens
recombined as Yindirtemys suni
Tataromys sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
5 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Li and Qiu 1980 3 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium sp. Roger 1904
Li and Qiu 1980 4 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Oioceros xiejiaensis Li and Qiu 1980
Li and Qiu 1980 5 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Qinghai County:Huangzhong
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 101.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 96.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:2552 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xiejia
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: described as Aquitanian or Aquitanian-Burgundian equivalent.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,yellow mudstone
Secondary lithology:green,yellow sandstone
Lithology description: "yellow brown mudstone with intercalated yellowish green, grey mudstone, sandstone and conglomerates lens, containing fish and mammal remains."
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "fluvial-lacustrine environment"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collection dates:1978
Metadata
Database number:34674
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-15 13:57:31 Last modified:2010-11-08 12:51:15
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-15 13:57:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9181.5% 29300Z. Qiu, C. Li, and S. Wang. 1981. Miocene mammalian fossils from Xining Basin, Qinghai. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 19(2):156-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

9182 C.-k. Li and Z.-d. Qiu. 1980. Early Miocene mammalian fossils of Xining Basin, Qinghai. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18(3):198-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]