Where: Yunnan, China (25.4° N, 104.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 102.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Caijiachong Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• 6th layer
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by IVPP in 1982, 1983, 1985; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang. 2001. Late Eocene ctenodactyloids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Qujing, Yunnan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 39(1):24-42 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175390: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Eucricetodon leptaleos" = Oxynocricetodon leptaleos
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Youngomys yunnanensis n. gen. n. sp.
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