Shizong (= Loping) general area (Eocene of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 104.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 102.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1960; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-S. Chiu. 1962. Giant Rhinoceros from Loping, Yunnan, and Discussion on the Taxonomic Characters of Indricotherium grangeri. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(1):57-71 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182894: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Indricotherium intermedium n. sp." = Urtinotherium intermedium, "Indricotheriinae indet." = Paraceratheriinae
"Indricotherium intermedium n. sp." = Urtinotherium intermedium Chiu 1962 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V 2643 - type
"Indricotheriinae indet." = Paraceratheriinae Osborn 1923 odd-toed ungulate
IVPP V 2642