Where: Hunan, China (27.9° N, 111.9° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 96.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Qixia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Associated with ammonoid Pseudohalorites
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1991
Primary reference: Z. H. Liu. 1994. New material of helicoprionid shark from Lianyuan of Hunan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32(2):127-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50995: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 25.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Hunanohelicoprion xiandongensis n. gen. n. sp.
Hunanohelicoprion xiandongensis n. gen. n. sp. Liu 1994 chimaera |