5 km NE of Tianyang County Town (Eocene of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.8° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° N, 105.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gongkang Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X.-S. Huang and J.-J. Zheng. 2005. A new viverravid (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Eocene of Tianyang, Guangxi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 43(3):231-236 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174910: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Orientictis spanios n. gen. n. sp.
Orientictis spanios n. gen. n. sp. Huang and Zheng 2005 placental
IVPP V13787 - holotype; referred material: IVPP V13788