Where: Henan, China (34.0° N, 111.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 102.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Qiupa Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
Primary reference: S. Bi, X. Jin, S. Li and T. Du. 2015. A new Cretaceous metatherian mammal from Henan, China. PeerJ 3:e896 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167889: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 06.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lotheridium mengi n. gen. n. sp.
Lotheridium mengi n. gen. n. sp. Bi et al. 2015 metatherian ZMNH M9032, a nearly complete skull with associated lower jaws
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