Huashigou bone bed A (82507A) (Eocene of China)

Also known as 25 km NWW of Uqbulak; Xiyilian; 100 km south of Ulungur River

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.3° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 82.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uqbulak Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Bone bed A

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1981-1982; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Y. Tong. 1989. Some Eocene Mammals From the Uqbulak Area of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(3):182-196 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176332: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodontidae indet. Marsh 1876 pantodont
IVPP V7927
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus huashigouensis n. sp. Tong 1989 condylarth
IVPP V7921 - type
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Mesonychidae indet. Cope 1875 condylarth
IVPP V7925