Gongkang Formation

The Gongkang Formation is a geologic formation in Guangxi, southern China. Different dates have been proposed for the Gongkang Formation historically, typically middle or late Eocene. The fossil gastropod fauna found in the formation may indicate an Early Oligocene age.

Mammal fossils

Artiodactyla Genus/familySpeciesNotes/affinitiesImagesAnthracokeryxA. gungkangensisAn anthracothere.A. kwangsiensisA. sp.Bothriodon?B.? tientongensisAn anthracothere.EopecarihyusE. sp. nov.A peccary.HeothemaH. angusticalxiaAn anthracothere.H. chengbiensisH. media

Carnivora Genus/familySpeciesNotes/affinitiesImagesHoplophoneus?H. sp.A nimravid (false saber-toothed cat).Machairodontinae gen. nov.sp. nov.A machairodontine (saber-toothed cat).OrientictisO. spaniosA viverravid.

Perissodactyla Genus/familySpeciesNotes/affinitiesImagesGuixiaG. youjiangensisA rhinoceros.ForstercooperiaF. sp. nov.A paracerathere.HuananodonH. hypsodontaAn amynodont.SchizotheriumS. nabanensisA chalicothere.S. sp.

Primates Genus/familySpeciesNotes/affinitiesImagesGuangxilemurG. tongiA sivaladapid.

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