Also known as 15 km NE of Hengyang
Where: Hunan, China (26.9° N, 112.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 108.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lingcha Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• "red beds"; Hengyang Basin
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.-C. Young, M. N. Bien, Y. Y. Lee in 1938; 1976; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1944. Note on the first Eocene mammal from South China. American Museum Novitates 1268:1-4 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180725: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Propalaeotherium hengyangensis n. sp." = Protomoropus hengyangensis
"Propalaeotherium hengyangensis n. sp." = Protomoropus hengyangensis Young 1944 odd-toed ungulate IVPP V214 - type; referred material: IVPP V5349
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Microparamys lingchaensis n. sp.
Microparamys lingchaensis n. sp. Li et al. 1979 rodent IVPP V5374 - type; referred material: IVPP V5348
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"Matutinia nitidulus n. gen. n. sp." = Rhombomylus nitidulus
"Matutinia nitidulus n. gen. n. sp." = Rhombomylus nitidulus Li et al. 1979 placental IVPP V5354 - holotype
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