Where: Guangxi, China (24.8° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 106.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• "discontinuous cave deposits" assigned to the late Pliocene based on occurrence of A. microta
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, yellow, argillaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Changzhu Jin, Jinyi Liu in 2001; reposited in the IVPP
• found "at the cave wall"
Primary reference: C. Jin, R. L. Ciochon, W. Dong, R. M. Hunt, Jr., J. Liu, M. Jaeger, and Q. Zhu. 2007. The first skull of the earliest giant panda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:10932-10937 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73636: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Ailuropoda microta Pei 1962 giant panda |