Where: Guangdong, China (21.7° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 109.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Youganwo Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
• Some possibility that it might be late Middle Eocene instead; Stratigraphic section shown in Averianov et al. 2018, figure 1 and locality at 34 meters above base of section
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•Aleksandrova et al. 2015: Palynomorph assemblages from Youganwo Formation suggest a Lutetian–Bartonian age, deposited in an intermittently swamped lacustrine–fluvial plain, which gave way to a freshwater lake.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• Purchased by the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China from a private, amateur collector.
Primary reference: I. G. Danilov, E. V. Syromyatnikova, P. P. Skutschas, T. M. Kodrul, and J. Jin. 2013. The first "true" Adocus (Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1071-1080 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 151737: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 11.10.2013, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Maofelis cantonensis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Maobrontops paganus n. gen. n. sp.2
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Cadurcodon maomingensis n. sp.1
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Reptilia | |
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Adocus inexpectatus n. sp.
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Dongnanosuchus hsui n. gen. n. sp.5
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