Shanxian County (Pleistocene of China)

Where: China (34.8° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° 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; 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 224037: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus cf. tremula Linnaeus 1753 poplar
var. davidiana