Xishangtuan Coal Mine: Early/Lower Eocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Asiohyopsodus confuciusi Tong and Wang 2006
IVPP V10737
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Chowliia cf. laoshanensis Tong and Wang 2006
IVPP V10741
Mammalia - Dichobunidae
Wutuhyus primiveris n. gen., n. sp. Tong and Wang 2006
IVPP V10720 - holotype
Mammalia - Changlelestidae
Changlelestes dissetiformis n. gen., n. sp. Tong and Wang 1993
Tong and Wang 1993
IVPP V10306-1-5 - holotype (right maxillary and paired mandibles); referred material: IVPP V10306-2-3
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Luchenus erinaceanus Tong and Wang 2006
IVPP V10710
Mammalia - Rodentia - Alagomyidae
Alagomys oriensis n. sp. Tong and Dawson 1995
IVPP 10694 - type
Mammalia - Primates - Carpolestidae
Chronolestes simul Beard and Wang 1995
IVPP V10696
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Changle
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 118.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 111.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wutu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:East Mine
Database number:183188
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-12-07 10:15:15 Last modified:2016-12-08 03:53:21
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-07 10:15:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61143. Y. Tong and J. Wang. 2006. Fossil Mammals from the Early Eocene Wutu Formation of Shandong Province. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C 192(28):1-195 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

57082 Y. Tong and J. Wang. 1993. A New Soricomorph (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Early Eocene of Wutu Basin, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31(1):19-32 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]