5311, 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

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: 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 42526: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.08.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracokeryx sinensis Zdansky 1930 anthracothere
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pappocricetodon rencunensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Tong 1992 mouse
IVPP V8928 - holotype; referred specimens: IVPP V8928
 Primates - Sivaladapidae
Rencunius zhoui n. gen. n. sp.1
Rencunius zhoui n. gen. n. sp.1 Gingerich et al. 1994 primate