Also known as Haishihwan

Where: Gansu, China (36.6° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 105.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Xiangtang Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• All of the specimens of the four localities are apparently derived from the same level marked as Jkh2 on the local geological map. It is unconformably below the younger Ref beds of the Kansu Formation... it is considered Lower Jurassic.

•Subsequently listed as Middle Jurassic by Li et al. 2008. The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and their Kin.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. C. Miao in 1947; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• National Resources Commission of China

Primary reference: C. -C. Young. 1948. Fossil crocodiles in China, with notes on dinosaurian remains associated with the Kansu crocodiles. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(3-4):255-288 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131875: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.08.2012

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