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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eosimias dawsonae n. sp.
Eosimias dawsonae n. sp. Beard and Wang 2004 monkey |