PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Teilhardina asiatica n. sp. Ni et al. 2004	Ni et al. 2004
Mammalia - Eurymylidae

	Matutinia nitidulus Li et al. 1979
	recombined as Rhombomylus nitidulus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Tamquammyidae

	cf. Tsagamys subitus Dashzeveg 1990
Mammalia - Rodentia

	Cocomys lingchaensis n. sp. Li et al. 1979
Mammalia - Acreodi - Hapalodectidae

	Hapalodectes hetangensis n. sp. Ting and Li 1987	Ting and Li 1987
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

	Dissacus sp. Cope 1881
	cited as "Dissacus n. sp."
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Orientolophus hengdongensis Ting 1993
	= Erihippus tingae n. gen., n. sp. Bai et al. 2018	Bai et al. 2018
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

	Danjiangia lambdodon n. sp. Bai et al. 2018	Bai et al. 2018
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Propachynolophus hengyangensis (Young 1944)
	recombined as Protomoropus hengyangensis
Mammalia - Cimolestidae

	cf. Naranius infrequens Russell and Dashzeveg 1986
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Asiocoryphodon sp. Xu 1976
	cited as "?Asiocoryphodon sp."
Mammalia - Didymoconida

	Hsiangolestes youngi n. gen., n. sp. Zheng and Huang 1984	Zheng and Huang 1984
	IVPP V7353 - holotype (partial skull)

	Hunanictis inexpectatus Li et al. 1979
see common names

Geography

Country:	China	State/province:	Hunan	County:	Hengdong
Coordinates:	27.1° North, 113.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	27.6° North, 108.4° East

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:

Lingcha

Member:

Upper

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

general faunal/floral analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Hengdong
Database number:	87239
Authorizer:	K. Beard, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	K. Beard, P. Holroyd
Modifier:	K. Beard	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2009-03-11 12:38:14	Last modified:	2009-03-11 15:07:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	2009-03-11 12:38:14
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

29372.

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 [K. Beard/K. Beard]

Secondary references:

67546		B. Bai, Y.-Q. Wang, and J. Meng. 2018. The divergence and dispersal of early perissodactyls as evidenced by early Eocene equids from Asia. Communications Biology 1(115):1-10 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
29371		X.-J. Ni, Y.-Q. Wang, Y.-M. Hu and C.-K. Li. 2004. A euprimate skull from the early Eocene of China. Nature 427:65-68 [K. Beard/K. Beard]
29370		S.-Y. Ting and C.-K. Li. 1987. The skull of Hapalodectes (Acreodi, Mammalia), with notes on some Chinese mesonychids. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 25(3):161-186 [K. Beard/K. Beard]
57606		J. Zheng and X. Huang. 1984. A New Didymoconid (Mammalia) from the Early Eocene of Hunan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 22(3):198-207 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]