Jeminay (Eocene of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (47.5° N, 85.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 81.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Irtysh River Formation according to Stidham and Ni (2014)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Geology Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1985; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: H.-Y. Jin. 2000. Middle Eocene mammals of Jeminay, Xinjiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(2):135-146 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175250: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodontidae indet. Leidy 1869 creodont
IVPP V11830
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Triplopus sp. Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V11827 and 11850
Triplopus jeminaiensis n. sp. Jin 2000 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V11828 - type
 Perissodactyla - Lophialetidae
Lophialetes sp. Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V11829