Where: Guangdong, China (21.7° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 109.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Youganwo Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• Also known as Youkanwo Formation

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•Aleksandrova et al. 2015: Palynomorph assemblages from Youganwo Formation suggest a Lutetian–Bartonian age, deposited in an intermittently swamped lacustrine–fluvial plain, which gave way to a freshwater lake.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. Claude, J.-Y. Zhang, J.-J. Li, J.-Y. Mo, X.-W. Kuang and H. Tong. 2012. Geoemydid turtles from the Late Eocene Maoming basin, southern China. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(6):641-651 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167230: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.03.2015, edited by Bethany Allen and Philip Mannion

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