Dahupo, near Zhangwan Village: Early/Lower Eocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Manteodon flerowi
Xu 1976
IVPP V 5145-5148
    = Heterocoryphodon xuae n. sp. Tong and Wang 2006
Tong and Wang 2006
Asiocoryphodon conicus n. gen., n. sp. Xu 1976
Xu 1976
IVPP V 5141 - holotype
Asiocoryphodon lophodontus n. sp. Xu 1976
Xu 1976
IVPP V 5142 - type; referred material: IVPP V 5143 and 5144
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
? Gobiatherium sp. Osborn and Granger 1932
Chow and Tung 1962
    = Gobiatherium mirificum Osborn and Granger 1932
Lucas 2001
IVPP V 2668
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Henan
Coordinates: 33.3° North, 111.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 104.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yuhuangding
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Ligongqiao basin, also called Xichuan basin
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shallow water limestone
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "freshwater"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:Likwanchiao; Xichuan, Ligongqiao basin
Database number:46196
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:S. Kuemmell, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-07 08:50:22 Last modified:2016-12-07 11:26:36
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-07 08:50:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11241. M. Chow, C.h. Li, and Y. Chang. 1973. Late Eocene mammalian faunas of Honan and Shansi with notes on some vertebrate fossils collected therefrom. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Gujizhui dongwu yu gurenlei) 11(2):165-181 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

60751 M.-C. Chow and Y.-S. Tung. 1962. Notes on Some New Uintathere Materials of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(4):368-374 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59843 S. G. Lucas. 2001. Gobiatherium (Mammalia: Dinocerata) from the middle Eocene of Asia: Taxonomy and biochronological significance. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(4):591-600 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]
61009 Y. Xu. 1976. Some New Forms of the Coryphodontidae from the Eocene of Sichuan and Honan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 14(3):185-193 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]