Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 94.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• The Luoping Biota may be attributed to the middle part of the upper Member of the Anisian Guanling Formation in Yunnan Province (Fig. 2). Biostratigraphical study of conodonts has suggested a Pelsonian age for this biota (Zhang et al. 2009; Huang et al. 2009)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Wuhan Institute of Geology and Mineral Recourses (WIGM) collection

•CCCGS, Chengdu Center of China Geological Survey, Chengdu, China

Primary reference: L. Cheng, X. -H. Chen, X. Zeng and Y. Cai. 2012. A new eosauropterygian (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Luoping, Yunnan Province. Journal of Earth Science 23(1):33-40 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123839: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 31.01.2012, edited by Bethany Allen and Mark Uhen

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