Banyan
Basic information
Sample name: Banyan

Reference: J. Han, Z. Shao, B. Xu, Q. Zhang, J. Yu, Q. Meng, X. Meng, D. Zhu, and J. Wang. 2017. First report of Late Miocene mammals including Chilotherium in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 91(3):1135-1136 [ER 4076]
Geography
Country: China

State: Qinghai

County: Huzhu

Coordinate: 36.71° N, 102.0° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Miocene

Geography comments: "in Banyan village, 1 km from Jiangjiagou village" in Huzhu County
estimated coordinate is based on Banyan
"Late Miocene" (no further details are given)
probably Tortonian and not Messinian based on the presence of both Chilotherium and Hipparion dongxiangense, a primitive and early hipparionine according to Sun and Deng (2019, Front. Ecol. Evol.)

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Environment
Lithology: mudstone

Habitat comments: "The fossils are located in brownish yellow and yellow mudstone. The stratigraphic bedding is clear, and the upper strata of the fossil layers develop gravel layers"

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sample size: 6 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the collection was made somewhere between 2015, when previous fieldwork was carried out near Jianjiagou, and 2017, the date of publication
the fossils were collected by "local villager LV Youjin"
the specimens were "prepared and identified" at the IVPP and presumably were housed there

Metadata
Sample no: 4501

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-19 11:41:33

Modified: 2024-11-19 11:47:45

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
4 species
3 singletons
total count 6
geometric series index: 24.0
Fisher's α: 5.245
geometric series k: 0.6934
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6
Shannon's H: 1.2425
Good's u: 0.5
Register
Chilotherium sp. 1
†Hipparion dongxiangense (horse)3
Stephanocemas sp. 1
Kubanochoerus sp. 1