Yangmazhai, Luoping County (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 94.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Guanling Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, muddy lime mudstone

• Thin-bedded marly limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Pachypleurosaur found by a geological mapping team from CCCGS led by Q. Y. Zhang on December 18th, 2007

Primary reference: C. Li, O. Rieppel, X.-C. Wu, L.-J. Zhao, and L.-T. Wang. 2011. A new Triassic marine reptile from southwestern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):303-312 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110023: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.05.2011, edited by Hallie Street

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Diapsida - Saurosphargidae
Sinosaurosphargis yunguiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Sinosaurosphargis yunguiensis n. gen. n. sp. Li et al. 2011 diapsid
IVPP V 17040, ZMNH M 8797; both from Yangmazhai Village