Lufeng, China


Fundort: Lufeng, China, Yunnan, China
Taxon: Sinoadapis carnosus aus der Familie Sivaladapidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils, Quarry sequence is divided into 8 beds (numbered from top), in the Xi River Basin north of Lufeng, China. These unconformably overly Mesozoic sediments. No Formation names are given. Han 1985: "Its geological age is Late Miocene, equivalent to the Turolian of European sequence of land mammal ages." Qi 1986: Age "8 Ma or perhaps a bit later", Quarry section at Lufeng is 8 m thick. Detailed microstratigraphy given in Qi 1985 and Badgley et al 1988.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 7,246 und 11,62 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in China
Geologie, Sratigraphie Tortonian / Tortonian /
Koordinaten: 25° 0 ' 59 '' N, 102° 3 ' 59 '' O

Literatur

Z. Qiu 1990, The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Plenum Press, New York.. , p. 527 - 556

Systematik