IVPP Loc. 72139, Chaling Basin (Paleocene of China)

Where: Hunan, China (26.7° N, 113.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 107.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zaoshi Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang. 1975. Paleocene mammals of Chaling Basin, Hunan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13(3):154-162 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182815: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Bemalambdidae
Bemalambdidae indet. Chow et al. 1973 pantodont
IVPP V4875 and 4877
Bemalambda nanhsiungensis Chow et al. 1973 pantodont
IVPP V4866
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Dissacus rotundus n. sp. Wang 1975 condylarth
IVPP V4868 - type