Lunan beds, Anren village, Lunan: Middle Eocene, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo yunnanensis n. sp. Yeh 1963
Brinkman et al. 2008
IVPP V 1031. Note listed as Dayima, Lunan, Yunnan, Early Oligocene
Testudo lunanensis n. sp. Yeh 1963
Brinkman et al. 2008
IVPP 1032. Note listed as Dayima, Lunan, Yunnan, Early Oligocene
Mammalia - Embrithopoda
Lunania informal n. sp.
undescribed
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. (Marsh 1873)
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2652
Rhinotitan quadridens n. sp. Xu and Chiu 1962
Xu and Chiu 1962
nomen dubium belonging to Rhinotitan
IVPP V 2651 - type
Parabrontops lunanensis n. sp. Chow and Hu 1959
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Indricotherium parvum n. sp. Chow 1958
Chow 1958
recombined as Urtinotherium parvum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2658
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Prohyracodon progressa Chow 1961
Xu and Chiu 1962
synonym of Prohyracodon meridionale
IVPP V 2657
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
cf. Metamynodon sp. Scott and Osborn 1887
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2656
Amynodon sp. Marsh 1877
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2655
Amynodon altidens n. sp. Xu and Chiu 1962
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2654 - type
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Teleolophus medius Matthew and Granger 1925
Xu and Chiu 1962
IVPP V 2653
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Probrachyodus panchiaoensis n. gen., n. sp. Xu and Chiu 1962
Xu 1962
IVPP V 2660 - holotype
Hyoboops hui n. sp. Chow 1958
Chow 1958
recombined as Brachyodus hui
Bothriodon sp. Aymard 1846
Chow 1958
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Eoentelodon yunnanense Chow 1958
Xu and Chiu 1962
recombined as Brachyhyops yunnanense
IVPP V 2659
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan County:Lunan
Coordinates: 24.8° North, 103.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.2° North, 101.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lumeiyi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Fossils were described as from the Upper Lunan beds, now the upper part of the Lumeiyi Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36668
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, D. Nicholson Enterer:S. Kuemmell, D. Nicholson, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-09 08:29:46 Last modified:2017-09-29 06:16:22
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-09 08:29:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9707.5% 42240M. Chow and C. C. Hu. 1959. A new species of Parabrontops from the Oligocene of Lunan, Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (= Gushengwu Xuebao) 7(2):85-89 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

58770 D. B. Brinkman, J.-L. Li, and X.-K. Ye. 2008. Order Testudines. In J. Li, X. Wu, F. Zhange (eds.), The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin 35-102 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]
60029 M. Chow. 1958. Some Oligocene Mammals from Lunan, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(4):263-267 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61005 Z. Qiu and B. Wang. 2007. Paracerathere Fossils of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 193(29):1-396 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61010 Y.-X. Xu. 1962. Some New Anthracotheres from Shansi and Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(3):232-250 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61012 Y.-X. Xu and C.-S. Chiu. 1962. Early Tertiary Mammalian Fossils from Lunan, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(4):313-332 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]