Also known as Hengdong
Where: Hunan, China (27.1° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 108.4° E)
When: Upper Member (Lingcha Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Primary reference: S.-Y. Ting, G. J. Bowen, P. L. Koch, W. C. Clyde, Y.-Q. Wang, Y. Wang, and M. C. McKenna. 2003. Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:521-535 [C. Beard/C. Beard]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87239: authorized by K. Christopher Beard, entered by K. Christopher Beard on 11.03.2009, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Matutinia nitidulus" = Rhombomylus nitidulus
"Matutinia nitidulus" = Rhombomylus nitidulus Li et al. 1979 placental | |
Cocomys lingchaensis n. sp.
Cocomys lingchaensis n. sp. Li et al. 1979 rodent | |
cf. Tsagamys subitus Dashzeveg 1990 rodent | |
Teilhardina asiatica n. sp.2
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Danjiangia lambdodon n. sp.1
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"Propachynolophus hengyangensis" = Protomoropus hengyangensis
"Propachynolophus hengyangensis" = Protomoropus hengyangensis Young 1944 odd-toed ungulate | |
Erihippus tingae n. gen. n. sp.1
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Hapalodectes hetangensis n. sp.3
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Hunanictis inexpectatus Li et al. 1979 eutherian
Hsiangolestes youngi n. gen. n. sp.4 Zheng and Huang 1984 eutherian IVPP V7353 - holotype (partial skull)
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cf. Naranius infrequens Russell and Dashzeveg 1986 eutherian | |
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