Where: Chancheng, China (23.0° N, 113.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 113.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 5000–4900 BP (Wang and Song 1981) C14 from crocodilian remains and molluscan shells

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1977

• The Guangdong Museum

Primary reference: M. Iijima, Y. Qiao, W. Lin, Y. Peng, M. Yoneda and J. Liu. 2022. An intermediate crocodylian linking two extant gharials from the Bronze Age of China and its human-induced extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220085 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224511: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 10.03.2022

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