Where: Guangdong, China (22.8° N, 111.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 111.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The sediments of the site belong to cave accumulations..."

•late middle Pleistocene

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, brown, yellow, sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• "...this fauna represents a new vertebrate assemblage of late middle Pleistocene in Xijiang River Valley."

•Museum: Guangdong Luoding bowuguan (Museum of Luoding in Guangdong)

Primary reference: W. Huang, F. Song, X. Guo and D. Chen. 1988. First discovery of Megalovis guangxiensis and Alligator cf. sinensis in Guangdong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica = Gujizhui Dongwu Xuebao 26(3):227-231 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 13293: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 15.02.2002, edited by Susanna Kümmell and John Alroy

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