Also known as Locality N-49
Where: Sichuan, China (29.1° N, 100.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° N, 100.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mula Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 223871: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.12.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Angiospermae | |
"Leguminosae indet." = Fabaceae
"Leguminosae indet." = Fabaceae Lindley 1836 legume | |
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Cotoneaster cf. microphyllus Wallich 1827 rose
Spiraea alpina Pallas 1784 meadowsweet | |
| Dicotyledoneae | |
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Rhododendron cf. fastigiatum Franchet 1886 rhododendron | |
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| Pinopsida | |
Larix sp., Picea cf. likiangensis, Picea cf. purpurea, Picea sp., Abies cf. faxoniana, Abies cf. squamata, Abies sp., Tsuga sp., Tsuga longibracteata
Larix sp. Miller 1768 larch
Picea cf. likiangensis spruce
Picea cf. purpurea spruce
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824 spruce
Abies sp. Miller 1754 fir
Tsuga sp. Carrière 1855
Tsuga longibracteata Cheng 1932 | |