WuchinyĆ¼, Nanxiong (Paleocene of China)

Also known as Wujing

Where: Guangdong, China (25.3° N, 114.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Luofozhai Group, Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue, conglomeratic sandstone

• "the purplish red-colored conglomeratic sandstone beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1961; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young and M. Chow. 1962. Some reptilian fossils from the "Red Beds" of Kwangtung and Chekiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 6(2):130-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71846: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2007, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
""Anosteira" lingnanica" = Allaeochelys lingnanica
""Anosteira" lingnanica" = Allaeochelys lingnanica Young and Chow 1962 turtle
IVPP V.1044