Where: Shanxi, China (37.1° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 112.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• "late Yushean age" (Tedford & Qiu 1996)

•"late Gaozhuang - early Mazegouan age, between 4.0 and 3.0 Ma" (Bartolini Lucenti 2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford and Z. Qiu. 1996. A new canid genus from the Pliocene of Yushe, Shanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Gujizhui Dongwu Xuebao) 34(1):27-40 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230918: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 26.07.2023

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