Fudong, Lanping (yellow sandstone) (Pliocene of China)

Also known as Locality N-42

Where: Yunnan, China (26.4° N, 99.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 98.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sanying Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; yellow sandstone and mudstone

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 223876: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
"Quercus pannosa" = Quercus (Heterobalanus) pannosa de Candolle 1864 oak
"Quercus lanpingensis n. sp." = Quercus (Heterobalanus) lanpingensis Tao 1986 oak
"Quercus lancifolia" = Quercus (Heterobalanus) lancifolia Tao 1986 oak
Quercus aquifolioides Rehder and Wilson 1916 oak
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824 spruce
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pine
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Drynaria lanpingensis n. sp. Huang et al. 2016
Kunming Institute of Botany, LP 001 (holotype), LP 002, frond and pinna respectively