Fuyuan, S. Santai, Talungkou (Triassic of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (44.0° N, 88.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 88.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jiucaiyuan Formation (Cangfanggou Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. L. Yuan; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C. C. Young. 1935. On two skeletons of Dicynodontia from Sinkiang. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of China 14:483-517 [H. Sims/J. Camp]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143474: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterosuchidae
Chasmatosaurus yuani n. sp.2 Young 1936 archosauromorph
IVPP RV 36315, partial skeleton (holotype)
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus hedini n. sp. Young 1935 dicynodont
IVPP RV 35012, nearly complete skeleton (holotype)
Lystrosaurus broomi n. sp.3 Young 1939 dicynodont
IVPP RV 39060, incomplete skull
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet.1 tetrapod
IVPP V3234, jaw fragment