Abstract: A new palaeanodont, Auroratherium sinense, was discovered in the Wutu Formation in 1993. Palaeanodonts are a rare group of fossorially adapted mammals, which up to now has been found solely in North America from the Paleocene to the Oligocene. This initial discovery suggests that palaeanodonts may also be widely, but rarely, distributed in the Paleogene of Asia. Associated with the specimen are other mammals, such as Changlelestes (Soricomorpha), Mesodmops (Multituberculata), Alagomyid, Paramyid and ctenodactyloid rodents, carpolestid primates, and primitive perissodactyls.