Zhugongtang West (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Wanshuina lii type

Where: Anhui, China (30.8° N, 116.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 109.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Doumu Formation), Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

• Obtained by Li Chuankui in 1991

Primary reference: L. Hou. 1994. A new Paleocene bird from Anhui, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32:60-65 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132698: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Wanshuina lii n. gen. n. sp.
Wanshuina lii n. gen. n. sp. Hou 1994 rail
IVPP V10529 - holotype (associated shaft of a right humerus, and distal end of a left tibiotarsus and left tarsometatarsus)