Pinglu County (Pleistocene of China)

Also known as Locality N-58

Where: Shanxi, China (34.9° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 110.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sanmen Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; white claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

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 224036: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Phyllites
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Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822
Angiospermae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperacites sp. Schimper 1870 sedge
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus cf. tremula Linnaeus 1753 poplar
var. davidiana