Shishan Town (Eocene of China)

Also known as Nanhai District, Foshan City

Where: Guangdong, China (23.1° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 110.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B. Bai, Y. Wang, J. Meng, Q. Li, and X. Jin. 2014. New Early Eocene Basal tapiromorph from Southern China and its Phylogenetic Implications. PLoS ONE 9(10):e110806:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176389: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Meridiolophus expansus n. gen. n. sp.
Meridiolophus expansus n. gen. n. sp. Bai et al. 2014 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V 20125 - holotype