Also known as Nan-hsiung; Eoalligator chunyii type

Where: Guangdong, China (25.1° N, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 109.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhuguikou Member (Nongshan Formation), Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• ?Paleocene (according to the mammalian remains found from the same horizon). See also Zhang (1984: Subdivision and faunal characteristics of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Luofozhai Group in the Pingling cross-section of the Nanxiong Basin), who provides evidence for it being late Paleocene

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•Middle Paleocene according to Missiaen (2011)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1964. New fossil crocodiles from China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8:189-208 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123376: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.01.2012

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