Chaka, Zekog (Miocene of China)

Also known as Locality N-23

Where: Qinghai, China (35.5° N, 101.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 96.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandy mudstone and shale

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 223892: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 13.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
 Poales - Typhaceae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperacites sp. Schimper 1870 sedge
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus sp. Linnaeus 1753 buttercup
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume
"Podogonium knorrii" = Podocarpium podocarpum Braun 1845 legume
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix sp. Linnaeus 1753 willow
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Taxus qinghaiensis n. sp. Guo 1980 yew
Carpites
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