Nanfeng Coal Mine, Xianfeng (Miocene of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.5° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: N14x Member (Xiaolongtan Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• "The wood-bearing beds belong to the Xiaolongtan Formation (Xing et al., 1999, Wu et al., 2006), which was dated to be 12.7–10 Ma (late Miocene) in age (Li et al., 2015)." (Wang et al. 2017)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; coal and mudstone

• N14x is "mudstone, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone with 3 interlayered coal seams" (Wang et al. 2017)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coalified

Collection methods: Repository: Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Primary reference: H. B. Wang, A. A. Oskolski, F. M. B. Jacques, Y. H. Wang, and Z. K. Zhou. 2017. Lignified woods of Pinus (Pinaceae) from the late Miocene of central Yunnan, China, and their biogeographic and paleoclimatic implications. Palaeoworld 26(3):553-565 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224543: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.03.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Tsuga nanfengensis n. sp., Pinus uniseriata n. sp., Pinus nanfengensis n. sp.
Tsuga nanfengensis n. sp. Bondarenko et al. 2015
NF 216 (holotype)
Pinus uniseriata n. sp. Wang et al. 2017 pine
NF 525 (holotype)
Pinus nanfengensis n. sp. Wang et al. 2017 pine
NF 245 (holotype)