Yangjiachong (Eocene of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.6° N, 104.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 102.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Caijiachong Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Upper part of Caijiachong Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Tang in 1972; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Y.-j. Tang. 1978. [New materials of Oligocene mammalian fossils from Qujing Basin, Yunnan]. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 7:75-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182882: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Indricotherium qujingensis n. sp." = Urtinotherium parvum
"Indricotherium qujingensis n. sp." = Urtinotherium parvum Chow 1958 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V 4705 - type