Guancaishan, near Jianping (Jurassic of China)

Also known as Muyingzi Village

Where: Liaoning, China (41.4° N, 119.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 122.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiaojishan Formation, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Bounding ash beds give an age range of 157-164 Ma; stated age of fossil beds is Oxfordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; ash

• the fossil beds of the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan (Lanqi) Formation consist of volcanic ash deposited in a lake during Oxfordian time

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Peking University Paleontological Collection (PKUP)

Primary reference: K. -Q. Gao and N. H. Shubin. 2012. Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(15):5767-5772 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130986: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 16.07.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Chunerpeton tianyiensis2, Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis n. gen. n. sp.
Chunerpeton tianyiensis2 Gao and Shubin 2003 salamander
Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis n. gen. n. sp. Gao and Shubin 2012 salamander
PKUP V0601 (holotype), PKUP V0602-0606, and several unnumbered specimens; all preserved as articulated cranial and postcranial skeletons.
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Hongshanxi xiei n. gen. n. sp.1
Hongshanxi xiei n. gen. n. sp.1 Dong et al. 2019 squamates
HS-0001 - holotype
1Dong et al. 2019; 2Sullivan et al. 2014