Also known as Renzi Cave; Huaguoshandong

Where: Anhui, China (31.1° N, 118.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 117.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• "The deposits in the cave measure more than 40 meters and can be divided in to two parts and 8 layers. Layers 1 - 7, which form the upper part, are mostly collapsed sediments from the walls and roof of the cave. The fossils were all found in these layers." (fossils are actually present in 2 - 7 but absent in 1; total thickness of 2 - 7 is 16.2 m)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; brown, red claystone and conglomeratic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "more than 1500 pieces of vertebrate fossils" collected in 1998 and "more than 3000 pieces" in 1999, for a total of "more than 5000 specimens"

Primary reference: C. Jin, W. Dong, J.-y. Liu, G.-b. Wei, Q.-q. Xu, J.-j. Zheng, L.-t. Zheng, L.-g. Han, and F.-z. Wang. 2000. A preliminary study of the early Pleistocene deposits and the mammalian fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fancheng, Anhui, China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 19(supplement):235-245 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68380: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.01.2007, edited by Gemma Benevento

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