Anhui Province, unknown locality (Triassic of China)

Also known as Ichthyosaur locality

Where: Anhui, China (31.0° N, 117.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144395: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 06.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Grippiidae
"Chaohusaurus geishanensis" = Chaohusaurus geishanensis, "Chensaurus faciles n. gen. n. sp." = Chaohusaurus geishanensis, Chensaurus chaoxianensis n. gen. n. sp.
"Chaohusaurus geishanensis" = Chaohusaurus geishanensis Young and Dong 1972 ichthyosaur
Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported
"Chensaurus faciles n. gen. n. sp." = Chaohusaurus geishanensis Young and Dong 1972 ichthyosaur
Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported
Chensaurus chaoxianensis n. gen. n. sp. Chen 1985 ichthyosaur
Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported