Qipan-cun road, Taopu, Qianshan (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Xudawu South

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 (Wanghudun Formation), Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• upper part of the Upper Member of Wanghudun Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990-1991; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Y. Hu. 1993. Two new genera of Anagalidae (Anagalida, Mammalia) from the Paleocene of Qianshan, Anhui and the phylogeny of anagalids. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31(3):153-182 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137418: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Anagalida - Anagalidae
Qipania yui n. gen. n. sp.
Qipania yui n. gen. n. sp. Hu 1993 placental
IVPP V7426 - holotype (pair of mandibles and broken maxillae, with most of the teeth)