Where: Guangxi, China (24.8° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 106.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• "discontinuous cave deposits" assigned to the late Pliocene based on occurrence of A. microta

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, yellow, argillaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Changzhu Jin, Jinyi Liu in 2001; reposited in the IVPP

• found "at the cave wall"

Primary reference: C. Jin, R. L. Ciochon, W. Dong, R. M. Hunt, Jr., J. Liu, M. Jaeger, and Q. Zhu. 2007. The first skull of the earliest giant panda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:10932-10937 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73636: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.06.2007

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