Xiawanu, Xiangxiang (Pliocene of China)

Also known as Locality N-47

Where: Hunan, China (27.8° N, 112.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 111.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale

• "Bluish grey or greenish yellow, thinly laminated shales" (Liu et al. 1996)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: Y.-S. Liu, S.-X. Guo, and D. K. Ferguson. 1996. A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 238:141-179 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223822: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
? Lygodium sp. Swartz 1800 climbing fern
Phyllites
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Phyllites sp. Brongniart 1822
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
 Fagales - Myricaceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
? Prunus sp. Linnaeus 1753 plum
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Zelkova ungeri Kovats 1865 zelkova
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
cf. Magnolia miocenica Hu and Chaney 1938 magnolia
 Laurales - Lauraceae
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
? Chamaecyparis sp. Spach 1841 cypress
? Juniperus sp. Linnaeus 1753 juniper