Anyang (Holocene of China)

Also known as An Yang, Ynixu, Anyang Yin Ruins, 安阳殷墟

Where: Henan, China (36.1° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 114.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Zhang et al. 2021: 3300~3000 BP, Neolithic-Shandong Period

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: C. Ping. 1930. Notes on the shell of a land tortoise from the ancient ruins of Annyang. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology 1:217-224 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195288: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.08.2018, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sinensis Fauvel 1879 Chinese alligator
osteoderms
 Testudines - Emydidae
"Testudo anyangensis n. sp." = Emys sinensis
"Testudo anyangensis n. sp." = Emys sinensis Gray 1835 pond turtle