Baiyu County (Pliocene to of China)

Also known as Locality N-50

Where: Sichuan, China (31.3° N, 98.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 98.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Changtai Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Y.-S. Liu, S.-X. Guo, and D. K. Ferguson. 1996. A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 238:141-179 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223819: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
Graminites sp. Geinitz 1865 grass
 Ranunculales - Berberidaceae
Berberis baiyuensis n. sp. barberry
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail