Zhicheng area, Yichang (Eocene of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.3° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 105.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yangxi 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: Y. Xu. 1980. New material of fossil Manteodon youngi from Yichang, Hubei. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18(4):296-298 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182905: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Manteodon youngi n. sp. Xu 1980 pantodont
IVPP V5149 - type