Zhangjiawu East (IVPP locality 71009) (Paleocene of China)

Where: Anhui, China (30.8° N, 116.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 108.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Wanghudun Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• lower part of the Upper Member of Wanghudun Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by IVPP in 1970-1972; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Y. Tang and D. Yan. 1976. Notes on some Mammalian Fossils from the Paleocene of Qianshan and Xuancheng, Anhui. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 14(2):91-99 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132946: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Anhuichelys siaoshihensis1 Yeh 1979 turtle
TZSGP QT2
Mammalia
 Anagalida - Anagalidae
Huaiyangale chianshanensis3, "Diacronus anhuiensis n. sp." = Diacronus anhuiensis4, "Decoredon elongetus n. gen. n. sp." = Diacronus anhuiensis5
Huaiyangale chianshanensis3 Xu 1976 placental
IVPP V 4267 and 4268
"Diacronus anhuiensis n. sp." = Diacronus anhuiensis4 Xu 1976 placental
IVPP V4271 - type
"Decoredon elongetus n. gen. n. sp." = Diacronus anhuiensis5 Xu 1976 placental
IVPP V4281 - holotype
 Anagalida - Pseudictopidae
Anictops tabiepedis2 Qiu 1977 placental
 Didymoconida -
Zeuctherium niteles n. gen. n. sp.
Zeuctherium niteles n. gen. n. sp. Tang and Yan 1976 eutherian
IVPP V4332 - holotype