Yongning (lower member) (Oligocene of China)

Also known as Nanning

Where: Guangxi, China (22.8° N, 108.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.8° N, 110.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Yongning Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 27.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. R. Zhao. 1981. The vertebrate fossils and Lower Tertiary from Nanning Basin, Guangxi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 19(3):218-227 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194579: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
"Heothema nanningensis n. sp." = Anthracotherium bellia
"Heothema nanningensis n. sp." = Anthracotherium bellia Tang 1978 anthracothere
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian