Nearby Datang Town (upper section) (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Bothriostylops medius type

Where: Guangdong, China (25.3° N, 114.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 109.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nongshan Formation, Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• Upper part of Nongshan Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X.-S. Huang and J.-J. Zheng. 2003. Note on two new mammalian species from the Late Paleocene of Nanxiong, Guangdong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 41(4):271-277 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137413: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Arctostylopidae
Bothriostylops medius n. sp. Huang and Zheng 2003 placental
IVPP V 13504 - type (fragmentary left and right upper jaws both with P4~M3 and a left lower jaw with p2~ m3)