Tong Xin 'Dragon Bones' collection, Ningxia, China


Fundort: Tong Xin 'Dragon Bones' collection, Ningxia, China, Ningxia, China
Taxon: Pliopithecus zhanxiangi aus der Familie Pliopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Middle Miocene (originally though to be Late Miocene by Chiu et al. (1979)), Tunggurian, Astaracian, MN6. Fauna very similar to Belometchetskaya in former Soviet Union, thought to be MN5/6.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 11,62 und 13,82 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in China
Geologie, Sratigraphie Serravallian / Serravallian /
Koordinaten: 36° 58 ' 30 '' N, 105° 54 ' 32 '' O

Literatur

T. Harrison, E. Delson, J. Guan 1991, A new species of Pliopithecus from the middle Miocene of China and its implications for early catarrhine zoogeography. Journal of Human Evolution. 21:5, p. 329 - 361

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