Hung Phat Plio-Pleistocene Plant Fossil Images from Central Vietnam

Central Vietnam's Hung Phat site provides an image library of plant macrofossils from the Plio-Pleistocene Kon Tum flora, collected in January 2020. The dataset accompanies a 2025 primary article in Palaeontologia Electronica by Tengxiang Wang and colleagues. It is a 7.5 GB ZIP file containing fossil images, with specimen identifiers linked to repository numbers via an appendix.

Use Cases

• Classifying fossil plant specimens based on macrofossil morphology
• Comparing ancient flora to modern tropical monsoon forests based on the described analog
• Studying Plio-Pleistocene vegetation changes in southern Indochina based on the fossil collection
• Training image recognition models for paleontological specimen identification based on the fossil image library

Strengths

• 7.5 GB of fossil images provides substantial visual material for analysis
• Images are linked to a primary 2025 research article for detailed context
• Specimens have formal repository numbers via lookup in an appendix

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Field collection of fossil specimens in January 2020.

Time Range

Plio-Pleistocene

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 20:16:44; freshness should be verified

Geography

Hung Phat site, Kon Tum flora, Central Highlands of Vietnam