A micromammalian assemblage from the Bahe Formation of Lantian, Shaaxi, China is reported in the present paper. This Bahe association consists of 17 species referred to ten families, of which at least one third are new genera of Dipodidae, Cricetidae and incertae familiae, and two genera are new for the fossil record in China (Abudhabia and Progonomys). It seems likely that the rodent component shows a mixture of elements found elsewhere in European, African and Asian rodent faunas. The association represents a new step in the sequence of micromammalian faunas of the Chinese Neogene, with an age of early late Miocene (early Baodean, correlated, in European terms, with late Vallesian-early Turolian or MN9-11 equivalent). The Bahe association reflects a generally drier open steppic environment during the early late Miocene than that which characterized earlier and later intervals.

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Z.D. Qiu, S.H. Zheng, S. Sen, & Z.Q. Zhang. (2003). Late Miocene micromammals from the Bahe Formation, Lantian, China. Deinsea, 10(1), 443–454.