Hsiaoshaho (Eocene of China)

Also known as Lunan; Iliang

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 103.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 101.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lumeiyi Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Chow (1964) listed the fossils as coming from the upper part of the "Lower Lunan formation", which is now referred to as the Lumeiyi Formation (Zhang et al., 1978; Russell and Zhai, 1987)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. C. Hu in 1957

Primary reference: M.-C. Chow. 1961. New Primitive True Rhinoceroses from the Eocene of Iliang, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(4):291-304 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180770: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
"Prohyracodon progressa n. sp." = Prohyracodon meridionale
"Prohyracodon progressa n. sp." = Prohyracodon meridionale Chow 1961 odd-toed ungulate
Geological Museum Peking V0045 - type
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Eomoropus ulterior n. sp. Chow 1962 chalicothere
Geological Museum Peking VM0053 - type