Hsishihwa 56173, Lotzeyue, Wuhsiang (Triassic of China)

Also known as Louzeyu

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: Perovkan other zone, upper Member (Ermaying Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Ermaying Formation was referred to the Perovkan LVF of Anisian age by Lucas (2010) based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, white sandstone and mudstone

• "lens or pocket-like deposits in the strata made of pale white to purplish fine sandstone and mudstone. The main fossiliferous layer is made of such rocks especially rich in concretions"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1956; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1958. The first Chinese labyrinthodonts. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2:101-105 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101059: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Capitosauroidea indet.1 tetrapod
IVPP V.2713, fragment of interclavicle, skull remains
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Parakannemeyeria youngi2 Sun 1963 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Wangisuchus tzeyii n. gen. n. sp.3
Wangisuchus tzeyii n. gen. n. sp.3 Young 1964 archosauromorph
IVPP V.2701 (holotype), maxillae, postcranial remains of approximately five individuals
 Thecodontia -
Shansisuchus heiyuekouensis3 Young 1964 archosaur
IVPP V.2514, cranial and postcranial material belonging to at least five individuals
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
"Shansisuchus shansisuchus n. gen. n. sp." = Shansisuchus shansisuchus3, "Fenhosuchus cristatus n. gen. n. sp." = Shansisuchus shansisuchus3
"Shansisuchus shansisuchus n. gen. n. sp." = Shansisuchus shansisuchus3 Young 1964 archosauromorph
"Fenhosuchus cristatus n. gen. n. sp." = Shansisuchus shansisuchus3 Young 1964 archosauromorph
IVPP V.2697 (holotype). Cranial and postcranial remains of at least five individuals