Industrial estate of Shishan Town (Eocene of China)

Also known as Nanhai District, Foshan City

Where: Guangdong, China (23.1° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 110.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huayong Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: F.-Y. Mao, Y.-Q. Wang, Q. Li and X. Jin. 2015. New records of archaic ungulates from the Lower Eocene of Sanshui Basin, Guangdong, China. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176386: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Phenacolophidae
Sanshuilophus zhaoi n. gen. n. sp.
Sanshuilophus zhaoi n. gen. n. sp. Mao et al. 2015 placental
IVPP V 20147 - holotype; paratype: IVPP V 20148