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Vertebrata Palasiatica ›› 2004, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (02): 130-143.

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DISCOVERY OF EARLY OLIGOCENE MAMMALIAN FOSSILS FROM DANGHE AREA , GANSU, CHINA

Wang BanYue, QIU ZhanXiang   

  • Online:2004-06-15 Published:2004-06-15

甘肃党河下游地区早渐新世哺乳动物化石的发现

王伴月, 邱占祥   

Abstract: The lower reach of the Danghe River [ = Taben2buluk area of Bohlin (1942) ] is one of the classic areas of late Oligocene in the Asian Paleogene biostratigraphy (Bohlin , 1942 , 1946) . In 1999 and 2001 a joint team of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP) , Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Gansu, and Provincial Museum of Gansu made a geologic survey of the Danghe area. During the survey some new mammalian fossils of early Oligocene were found. The new find indicates that the Danghe Basin received its Cenozoic deposits from early Oligocene rather than late Oligocene as previously thought. All of the specimens described here are collected from the lower part of the Paoniuquan Formation in the Tiejianggou valley, Aksay Kazak Autonomous County, Gansu Province.

摘要: 描述了产于党河下游地区的狍牛泉组下部地层中的叮当沟哺乳动物群。化石共计11属14 种: Palaeoscaptor cf . P. acridens、Palaeoscaptor sp.、Oligosciurus dangheensis gen. et sp.nov.、Tataromys cf. T. sigmodon、Karakoromys decessus、Coelodontomys asiaticus、Parasminthus spp.、Cricetidae gen. et sp. indet.、De