locality 47 (8b), Guangyuan (Jurassic of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.4° N, 105.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 108.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chongqing Group, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• top of "Kuangyuan Series" = Chongqing Group/Guangyuan Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• "rich shell-bearing layer"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C.-C. Young in 1941; reposited in the IVPP

• shells not described

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1942. Fossil vertebrates from Kuangyuan, N. Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 22(-34):293-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47076: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
IVPP V.199
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ptychoceratodontidae
"Ceratodus szechuanensis n. sp." = Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis
"Ceratodus szechuanensis n. sp." = Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis Young 1942 lungfish
IVPP V.230
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Chienkosaurus ceratosauroides n. gen. n. sp. Young 1942 tetanuran theropod
IVPP V.237
cf. Sinocoelurus fragilis Young 1942 tetanuran theropod
Sinocoelurus fragilis n. gen. n. sp. Young 1942 tetanuran theropod
IVPP V.232-234
Szechuanosaurus campi n. gen. n. sp. Young 1942 theropod
IVPP V.235, 236, 238, 239
 Saurischia - Mamenchisauridae
cf. Omeisaurus junghsiensis Young 1939 mamenchisaurid
IVPP V.240