Also known as IVPP Locality 73065; Carnilestes major type
Where: Guangdong, China (25.1° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 109.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shanghu Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• Wang and Zhai (1995) list the age as early (?) - middle Paleocene, but an early Paleocene age is supported by the more recent paper of Clyde et al. (2010).
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•Lower part of Shanghu Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: X. Wang and R. Zhai. 1995. Carnilestes, a New Primitive Lipotyphlan (Insectivora: Mammalia) from the Early and Middle Paleocene, Nanxiong Basin, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(1):131-145 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132961: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carnilestes major n. sp.
Carnilestes major n. sp. Wang and Zhai 1995 eutherian IVPP V 10492 - type (incomplete left palate with P2-M2 and roots of C1-Pl, left and right rami with left i2-cl, p3-m2, and right cl-m2)
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