Cunjin (Eocene of China)

Also known as IVPP 85008

Where: Jilin, China (43.0° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 119.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: IV Member (Huadian Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; shale and coal

• "warm, moist, forested area" (Beard and Wang 1991) or "subtropical swamp forest" (Hou and Ericson 2002)
• "oil shale and coal deposits" (Hou and Ericson 2002)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1984, 1985; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B. Wang and C. Li. 1990. First Paleogene Mammalian Fauna from Northeast China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(3):165-205 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174719: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Eochenus sinensis
Eochenus sinensis Wang and Li 1990 hedgehog
IVPP V8794