Where: Liaoning, China (39.4° N, 121.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• "A total of seven layers, including six fossiliferous layers are present spanning the latest Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene (Ge et al. 2021; Jin et al. 2021; Shen et al. 2021), and the new material described in this study was found in the upper layer (Level 2), belonging to the Wanghai Fauna of the early Middle Pleistocene." (Jiangzuo et al. 2022)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Administrative Committee of Dalian Jinpu New District, Liaoning, China
Primary reference: Q. Jiangzuo, Y. Wang, Y. Song, S. Liu, C. Jin and J. Liu. 2022. Middle Pleistocene Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi, 1938 in northeastern China and the evolution of Xenocyon-Lycaon lineage. Historical Biology [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 230980: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 28.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pachycrocuta brevirostris sinensis brown hyaena | |
Enhydrictis melina Pei 1934 mustelid carnivore
Meles leucurus Hodgson 1847 Asian badger | |
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear | |
Canis cf. mosbachensis Soergel 1925 canine
Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi 1938 canine | |
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx |