F 23, Rencun, Yuanqu basin (Eocene of China)

Also known as 5311-5314

Where: Henan, China (34.8° N, 111.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 106.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Rencun Member (Hedi Formation), Sharamurunian (56.0 - 37.7 Ma)

• Previously Upper Eocene, but Rencun member faunal assemblages correlate with faunas of Sharamurunian ALMA (e.g. Li 2018)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Yuanqu basin

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C. Young. 1937. An early Tertiary vertebrate fauna from Yuanchü. Bulletin of the geological society of China 17(3-4):413-438 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42162: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 25.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
Caenolophus cf. promissus Matthew and Granger 1925 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Deperetellidae
"Diplolophodon similis" = Bahinolophus birmanicus
"Diplolophodon similis" = Bahinolophus birmanicus Pilgrim 1925 odd-toed ungulate