5313, Rencun, Mianchixian County, Yuanqu basin (Eocene of China)

Also known as F 23

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rencun Member (Heti Formation), Sharamurunian (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• Middle Eocene (Sharamurunian) according to Sullivan and Dong (2018)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Yuanqu basin

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. Chow, C.h. Li, and Y. Chang. 1973. Late Eocene mammalian faunas of Honan and Shansi with notes on some vertebrate fossils collected therefrom. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Gujizhui dongwu yu gurenlei) 11(2):165-181 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42164: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 25.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis2 Sullivan 1979 squamates
Mammalia
 Tillodontia -
 Artiodactyla -
Anthracothema minima Xu 1962 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracokeryx sinensis Zdansky 1930 anthracothere
 Primates - Sivaladapidae
Rencunius zhoui n. gen. n. sp.1
Rencunius zhoui n. gen. n. sp.1 Gingerich et al. 1994 primate