Fangou Village, Shimen Town (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Qinornis paleocenica type

Where: Shaanxi, China (34.2° N, 110.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 101.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fangou Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red, sandy claystone

• Brown, red sandy clay

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zhao Jifa & Xue Xiangxu in 1977-1978

Primary reference: X. Xue. 1995. Qinornis paleocenica - a Paleocene bird discovered in China. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181:89-93 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132697: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Ornithurae -
Qinornis paleocenica n. gen. n. sp.
Qinornis paleocenica n. gen. n. sp. Xue 1995 bird
XD78sh048.1-3 - holotype (most of a left tibiotarsus, distal part of a right tibiotarsus, and an almost complete right tarsometatarsus with almost complete digits and several isolated phalanges)