Wuchinyü, Nanxiong: Middle Paleocene, China
collected 1961
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Anosteira lingnanica n. sp.
Young and Chow 1962
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1 individual | |||||||||
| IVPP V.1044 | ||||||||||
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= "Anosteira" lingnanica
Young and Chow 1962
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de Broin 1987 | |||||||||
| recombined as Allaeochelys lingnanica | ||||||||||
| carettochelyine rather than anosteirine; maybe near Allaeochelys or Chorlakkichelys | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Guangdong | County: | Nanxiong |
| Coordinates: | 25.3° North, 114.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.5° North, 110.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Selandian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Paleocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 61.60000 - 59.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Luofozhai |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red,blue conglomeratic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "the purplish red-colored conglomeratic sandstone beds" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP | Collection dates: | 1961 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Wujing | ||
| Database number: | 71846 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-05-14 11:26:39 | Last modified: | 2022-04-27 06:03:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-05-14 11:26:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24281. | ETE | C.-C. Young and M. Chow. 1962. Some reptilian fossils from the "Red Beds" of Kwangtung and Chekiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(2):130-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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] | |
| 14333 | F. de Broin. 1987. Lower vertebrates from the early-middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan): Chelonia. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(7):169-185 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde] | |
| 24967 | ETE | C.-C. Young and M.-C. Chow. 1963. Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate horizons of North Kwangtung. Scientia Sinica 12(9):1411 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |