Where: Guizhou, China (25.5° N, 104.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 94.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nicoraella germanicus conodont zone, Guanling Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "The fossil-bearing horizon, about 15 cm in thickness, lies immediately below a layer of white clay (ca. 5 cm thick, representing a marker bed for the most fossiliferous horizon). This marker bed is situated within the upper member of the Guanling Formation"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2003-2008; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical
Primary reference: D.-Y. Jiang, L. Schmitz, R. Motani, W.-C. Hao, and Y.-L. Sun. 2007. The mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon cf. P. Fraasi from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):602-605 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 103987: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 04.02.2011, edited by Graeme Lloyd and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Placodus inexpectatus n. sp.2
Placodus inexpectatus n. sp.2 Jiang et al. 2008 placodont GMPKU-P-1054 (holotype), nearly complete skeleton
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Nothosaurus yangjuanensis n. sp.1
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Wumengosaurus delicatomandibularis3 Jiang et al. 2008 diapsid GMPKU-P-1210, 1209, NMNS-KIKO-F071129-Z, IVPP V15314, ZMNH M8758
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