Where: Yunnan, China (27.8° N, 99.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 99.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• local section has four units, and my rusty Chinese suggests that all the fossils are from the lowest, which is 1.3 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: specimens are in the YNDM collection

Primary reference: X.-P. Ma, G. Li, F. Gao, Y.-L. Sun, and L. Zheng. 2004. New early Pleistocene mammalian materials from Zhongdian, Yunnan Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(3):246-258 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78193: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.01.2008

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