Also known as Locality N-23
Where: Qinghai, China (35.5° N, 101.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.1° N, 98.8° E (Wright 2013)
• 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Carpites | |
Angiospermae | |
Salix sp. Linnaeus 1753 willow | |
Cercis miochinensis redbud
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume
"Podogonium knorrii" = Podocarpium podocarpum Braun 1845 legume | |
Acer pseudocarpinifolium maple
Acer subginnala maple | |
Ranunculus sp. Linnaeus 1753 buttercup | |
Phragmites oeningensis common reed | |
Typha latissima bulrush | |
Cyperacites sp. Schimper 1870 sedge | |
Pinopsida | |
Taxus qinghaiensis n. sp.
Taxus qinghaiensis n. sp. Guo 1980 yew |