Kaiyuan, Yunnan Province (Miocene of China)
Also known as Keiyuan
Where: Yunnan, China (23.7° N, 103.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 102.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Hsialungtan Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lignite
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The material was sent to the author by the Yunnan Provincial Museum in Kunming. All were a brownish dark colour and highly fossilized.
Primary reference: J.-K. Woo. 1958. New material of Dryopithecus from Keiyuan, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(1):38-42 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
PaleoDB collection 42483: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 30.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Type site of Dryopithecus keiyuanensis.
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Mammalia | |
Dryopithecus keiyuanensis n. sp.
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Tetralophodon sp. Falconer 1857 gomphothere |