Tat'ang, Maoming (Eocene of China)

Where: Guangdong, China (21.7° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Maoming Series

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: H.-K. Yeh. 1958. A new crocodile from Maoming, Kwangtung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(4):237-242 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144065: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.04.2013, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Anosteira maomingensis Chow and Liu 1955 turtle
Described by Chow (1955, 1956)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes impressus n. sp." = Striatochelys impressa
"Aspideretes impressus n. sp." = Striatochelys impressa Yeh 1963 softshell turtle
IVPP V 1036
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
"Tomistoma petrolica n. sp." = Maomingosuchus petrolica
"Tomistoma petrolica n. sp." = Maomingosuchus petrolica Yeh 1958 crocodilian
IVPP V2303 - type (skull); IVPP V5015 - referred material (Li 1975)
Actinopteri
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Cyprinus maomingensis carp-like fish
Described by Liu (1957)