Chashanao, Hengyang (Eocene of China)

Also known as Locality E-14

Where: Hunan, China (26.9° N, 112.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 110.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chashanao Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; muddy, calcareous 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 224028: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.01.2022

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Proteaceae