Jinyuan Cave, Luotuoshan (Pleistocene of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (39.4° N, 121.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 121.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• "A total of seven layers, including six fossiliferous layers are present spanning the latest Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene (Ge et al. 2021; Jin et al. 2021; Shen et al. 2021), and the new material described in this study was found in the upper layer (Level 2), belonging to the Wanghai Fauna of the early Middle Pleistocene." (Jiangzuo et al. 2022)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Administrative Committee of Dalian Jinpu New District, Liaoning, China

Primary reference: Q. Jiangzuo, Y. Wang, Y. Song, S. Liu, C. Jin and J. Liu. 2022. Middle Pleistocene Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi, 1938 in northeastern China and the evolution of Xenocyon-Lycaon lineage. Historical Biology [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230980: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 28.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Meles leucurus Hodgson 1847 Asian badger
Enhydrictis melina Pei 1934 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi 1938 canine
Canis cf. mosbachensis Soergel 1925 canine
 Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena
subsp. sinensis