Qiongshan County (Eocene of China)

Also known as Locality E-6

Where: Hainan, China (20.0° N, 110.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.7° N, 109.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Changchang Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray mudstone

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 223825: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Rutaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
 Trochodendrales - Trochodendraceae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
Osmunda lignita Giebel 1857
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Salvinia sp. Adanson 1763 watermoss