Lu-Tze-Yü, 5531, Wuhsiang-Yüshe area (Triassic of China)

Also known as Louzeyu, Lotseyu

Where: Shanxi, China (37.0° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 90.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Ermaying Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Ermaying Formation has generally been considered of Anisian age based on vertebrate biostratigraphy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: A.-L. Sun. 1963. The Chinese kannemeyerids. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 147(17):1-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143499: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Parakannemeyeria youngi n. sp. Sun 1963 dicynodont
IVPP V 978, complete skull (holotype)
Sinokannemeyeria sp. Young 1937 dicynodont
IVPP V 980, both femora, right tibia and fibula