Jintang Village (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Pappictidops spp.

Where: Guangdong, China (25.1° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 109.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper part of the Shanghu Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1973; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang. 1978. Two new miacids from Paleocene of Nanhsiung, Kwangtung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 16(2):91-96 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140273: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Pappictidops obtusus n. sp. Wang 1978 carnivoran
IVPP V5233 - type (partial skull)
Pappictidops acies n. sp. Wang 1978 carnivoran
IVPP V5232 - type (upper and lower jaws of one individual)