Where: Gansu, China (39.8° N, 96.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 97.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Xiagou Formation (Xinminbao Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; mudstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Authors and their collecting team
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Specimens are in the collections of the Fossil Research and Development Centre of the Third Geology and Mineral Resources Exploration Academy of Gansu Province (FRDC).
Primary reference: A. M. Murray, H. L. You, and C. Peng. 2010. A New Cretaceous Osteoglossomorph Fish from Gansu Province, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):322-332 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135813: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 10.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Shuleichthys brachypteryx n. gen. n. sp.
Shuleichthys brachypteryx n. gen. n. sp. Murray et al. 2010 |