Maoming City Oil Shale Quarry (Eocene to of China)

Where: Guangdong, China (21.7° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 109.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Youganwo Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• Some possibility that it might be late Middle Eocene instead; Stratigraphic section shown in Averianov et al. 2018, figure 1 and locality at 34 meters above base of section

•Aleksandrova et al. 2015: Palynomorph assemblages from Youganwo Formation suggest a Lutetian–Bartonian age, deposited in an intermittently swamped lacustrine–fluvial plain, which gave way to a freshwater lake.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; shale

• "...dark brown oil shales in the upper part of the Youganwo Formation which were deposited in lacustrine conditions."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Purchased by the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China from a private, amateur collector.

Primary reference: I. G. Danilov, E. V. Syromyatnikova, P. P. Skutschas, T. M. Kodrul, and J. Jin. 2013. The first "true" Adocus (Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1071-1080 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151737: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 11.10.2013, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Dongnanosuchus hsui n. gen. n. sp.5
Dongnanosuchus hsui n. gen. n. sp.5 Shan et al. 2021 crocodilian
MMC 001 (skull)
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus inexpectatus n. sp. Danilov et al. 2013 turtle
MMT 001 - holotype (a shell)
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Anosteira maomingensis4 Chow and Liu 1955 turtle
MMT 2
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
Maofelis cantonensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Maofelis cantonensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Averianov et al. 2016 false sabre-tooth
SYSU-M-2 - holotype
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Cadurcodon maomingensis n. sp.1 Averianov et al. 2017 odd-toed ungulate
SYSU-M-3 - holotype
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Maobrontops paganus n. gen. n. sp.2
Maobrontops paganus n. gen. n. sp.2 Averianov et al. 2018 brontothere
SYSU-M-4 - holotype