Wulong, Namling (Miocene of China)

Also known as Locality N-14

Where: Xizang, China (30.1° N, 89.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 88.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wulong Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone and sandstone

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 223820: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp. Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
previously identified as Sophora macrocarpa and S. tibetica
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Polypodiisporites sp. PotoniƩ 1931
Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
Phragmites sp. Adanson 1763 common reed
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperacites sp. Schimper 1870 sedge
 Saxifragales - Grossulariaceae
Ribes sp. Linnaeus 1753 currant
 Rosales - Pomaceae
Crataegus sp. Linnaeus 1753 hawthorn
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
"Quercus wulongensis n. sp." = Quercus (Heterobalanus) wulongensis Li and Guo 1976 oak
 Fagales - Betulaceae
Betula sp. Linnaeus 1753 birch
Carpinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 hornbeam
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus latior Braun 1835 poplar
Salix sp. Linnaeus 1753 willow
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
Quercoidites
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Quercoidites sp. PotoniƩ 1960