A NEW ZHELESTID (MIXOTHERIDIA, MAMMALIA) FROM THE PALEOCENE OF QIANSHAN, ANHUI

During the fieldwork in the past several years, a great number of Paleocene mammals were collected from Qianshan Basin in Anhui Province. Of all the mammalian fossils recovered in recent years, only some of a few taxa, e.g. Anagalidae and Pantodonta, have been described (Hu, 1993; Wang, 1993; Wang et al., 1992).Here described specimens, a pair of lower jaws and two fragments of one left maxilla of the same individual, were found from the lower part of Upper Member of Wanghudun Formation (Middle Paleocene) in the summer of 1993 and probably represent a mixotheridian.