Leibei (Eocene of China)

Also known as Danjiangkou City; southern bank of Hanjiang River; Liguanqiao Basin

Where: Hubei, China (32.6° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 104.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yuhuangding Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Middle Member of Yuhuangding Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: J.-W. Guo, Y. Wang, and X.-A. Yang. 2000. A new Early Eocene ctenodactyloid rodent (Rodentia, Mammalia) and the associated mammalian fossils from Danjiangkou, Hubei. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(4):303-313 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175175: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Glires - Eurymylidae
Rhombomylus cf. turpanensis Zhai 1978 placental
IVPP V12485-12487
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
IVPP V11832
 Rodentia -
Hannanomys lini n. gen. n. sp.
Hannanomys lini n. gen. n. sp. Guo et al. 2000 rodent
IVPP V11831 - type