Also known as Locality E-8
Where: Xizang, China (32.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 70.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Menshi Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray shale
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 224023: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Cyperacites haydenii Lesquereux 1883 sedge | |
Phrynium tibeticum arrowroot | |
Ficus myrtifolia fig | |
Rhamnus menshigensis buckthorn | |
Cassia marshalensis legume | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Eucalyptus oblongifolia eucalyptus
Eucalyptus sp. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789 eucalyptus
"Eucalyptus geinitzii" = Eucalyptus geinitzi Heer 1869 eucalyptus |