Heti Formation Locality 11-12 (Eocene of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (35.0° N, 111.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 105.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siliciclastic sediments

• "The Rencun member includes well-developed paleosols as well as relatively fine-grained floodplain sediments"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1995; reposited in the IVPP

• new IVPP collections from the undifferentiated Heti Formation localities 11 and 12 of earlier workers

Primary reference: K. C. Beard and J. Wang. 2004. The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China. Journal of Human Evolution 46(4):401-432 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74475: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Eosimiidae
Eosimias dawsonae n. sp.
Eosimias dawsonae n. sp. Beard and Wang 2004 monkey