Also known as Carnilestes palaeoasiaticus referred

Where: Guangdong, China (25.3° N, 114.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 109.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Wang and Zhai (1995) list the age as early (?) - middle Paleocene, but an early Paleocene age is supported by the more recent paper of Clyde et al. (2010).

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•100 m (surface measurement, representing just a few meters of thickness of strata) above the basal nodular layer of the Shanghu Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X. Wang and R. Zhai. 1995. Carnilestes, a New Primitive Lipotyphlan (Insectivora: Mammalia) from the Early and Middle Paleocene, Nanxiong Basin, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(1):131-145 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132958: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.08.2012

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