Lingcha (Eocene of China)

Also known as Hengdong

Where: Hunan, China (27.1° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 108.4° E)

When: Upper Member (Lingcha Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Primary reference: S.-Y. Ting, G. J. Bowen, P. L. Koch, W. C. Clyde, Y.-Q. Wang, Y. Wang, and M. C. McKenna. 2003. Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:521-535 [C. Beard/C. Beard]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87239: authorized by K. Christopher Beard, entered by K. Christopher Beard on 11.03.2009, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Glires - Eurymylidae
"Matutinia nitidulus" = Rhombomylus nitidulus
"Matutinia nitidulus" = Rhombomylus nitidulus Li et al. 1979 placental
 Rodentia -
Cocomys lingchaensis n. sp. Li et al. 1979 rodent
 Rodentia - Tamquammyidae
cf. Tsagamys subitus Dashzeveg 1990 rodent
 Primates - Omomyidae
Teilhardina asiatica n. sp.2 Ni et al. 2004 tarsier
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Danjiangia lambdodon n. sp.1 Bai et al. 2018 brontothere
 Perissodactyla -
"Propachynolophus hengyangensis" = Protomoropus hengyangensis
"Propachynolophus hengyangensis" = Protomoropus hengyangensis Young 1944 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Erihippus tingae n. gen. n. sp.1
Erihippus tingae n. gen. n. sp.1 Bai et al. 2018 horse
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Dissacus sp. Cope 1881 condylarth
cited as "Dissacus n. sp."
 Acreodi - Hapalodectidae
Hapalodectes hetangensis n. sp.3 Ting and Li 1987 condylarth
 Didymoconida -
Hunanictis inexpectatus Li et al. 1979 eutherian
Hsiangolestes youngi n. gen. n. sp.4 Zheng and Huang 1984 eutherian
IVPP V7353 - holotype (partial skull)
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
cf. Naranius infrequens Russell and Dashzeveg 1986 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Asiocoryphodon sp. Xu 1976 pantodont
cited as "?Asiocoryphodon sp."