Dongjun Formation, unspecified localities (Eocene of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (23.6° N, 107.2° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 105.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dongjun Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Text states age as earliest late Eocene and Irdinmanhan equivalent. Age emended to middle Eocene to follow more recent assessments of Asian Land Mammal Age equivalencies.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: S. Ding, J. Zheng, Y. Zhang and Y. Tong. 1977. Age and characteristics of the Liuniu and Dongjun faunas, Bose Basin of Guangxi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17(2):137-145 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190965: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 01.01.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
cf. Lianghusuchus sp. Young 1948 crocodilian
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle