Hsiaogotze-Baiyaoshan (Eocene of China)

Also known as SE of Lumeiyi; Lu-Mei-Yi; 5 km N of Lunan

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 103.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 101.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lumeiyi Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• Chow (1964) listed the fossils as coming from the "Lunan formation", which is now referred to as the Lumeiyi Formation (Zhang et al., 1978; Russell and Zhai, 1987)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

• Red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PMNH in 1960

Primary reference: M. Chow. 1964. Amynodon from the Eocene of Lunan, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(4):355-360 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180768: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Lushiamynodon menchiapuensis Chow and Xu 1965 odd-toed ungulate
PMNH-M87
Amynodon lunanensis n. sp. Chow 1964 odd-toed ungulate
PMNH P2GM340 - type
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Prohyracodon sp. Koch 1897 odd-toed ungulate
Tooth