Lianhuatang Southeast (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Lianhuatang Village

Where: Anhui, China (30.6° N, 116.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 109.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Wanghudun Formation), Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• Upper part of the Upper Member of Wanghudun Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1970s; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X.-S. Huang and J.-J. Zheng. 2003. A tillodont-like mammal from the Middle Paleocene of Qianshan Basin, Anhui, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 41(2):131-136 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139615: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta -
Simplodon qianshanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Simplodon qianshanensis n. gen. n. sp. Huang and Zheng 2003 tillodont
IVPP V 13586 - holotype (right upper jaw)