Xinmin, Panxian County (IVPP): Pelsonian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
Li et al. 2004
Reptilia
Qianosuchus mixtus n. gen., n. sp. Li et al. 2006
3 individuals
IVPP V13899 (holotype), complete skeleton; IVPP V14300 (paratype), incomplete skeleton; NMNS 000408/F003877, incomplete skull
Reptilia - Tanystropheidae
Dinocephalosaurus orientalis n. gen., n. sp. Li 2003
Li 2003 2 individuals
IVPP V13767 (holotype), skull and lower jaw with anterior cervical vertebrae; IVPP V13898, nearly complete skeleton
Reptilia - Saurosphargidae
Largocephalosaurus qianensis n. sp. Li et al. 2013
Li et al. 2013 3 specimens
IVPP V 15638 (holotype), a nearly complete skeleton in ventral view, with posterior-most section of the tail missing; GMPKU-P-1532-A, a skull with a cervical vertebra in dorsal view. GMPKU-P-1532-B, an incomplete postcranial skeleton in dorsal view, with the posterior portion of the mandible but missing most of the tail; all are from "Xinmin District, Panxian County, southwest-most Guizhou Province, P. R. China; Member II of the Guanling Formation, Anisian, Middle Triassic"
Reptilia - Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Li et al. 2004
Panxianichthyiformes - Panxianichthyidae
Panxianichthys imparilis n. gen., n. sp. Xu and Shen 2015
Xu and Shen 2015 2 individuals
IVPP V 19971, 19972
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Feroxichthys panzhouensis n. sp. Ma et al. 2021
Ma et al. 2021 1 specimen
IVPP V16520
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guizhou County:Panxian
Coordinates: 25.7° North, 104.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.7° North, 93.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Pelsonian
Age range of interval:244.70000 - 243.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Guanling
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Not clear if fossils are collected from a restricted stratigraphic horizon, or from multiple layers
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "Near shore platform or lagoon"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:Qianosuchus holotype site
Database number:88049
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Clapham, R. Benson Enterer:R. Butler, M. Clapham, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-31 03:03:47 Last modified:2021-04-15 15:39:59
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-31 03:03:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29581. C. Li, X. -C. Wu, Y. Cheng, T. Sato, and L. Wang. 2006. An unusual archosaurian from the marine Triassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 93(4):200-206 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

46446 C. Li. 2003. First record of protorosaurid reptile (Order Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of China. Acta Geologica Sinica 77:419-423 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
46922 C. Li, D. -Y. Jiang, L. Cheng, X. Wu, and O. Rieppel. 2013. A new species of Largocephalosaurus (Diapsida: Saurosphargidae), with implications for the morphological diversity and phylogeny of the group. Geological Magazine [R. Benson/R. Benson]
19470 C. Li, O. Rieppel, and M. C. LaBarbara. 2004. A Triassic aquatic protorosaur with an extremely long neck. Science 305:1931 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
76461 X. Y. Ma, G. H. Xu, and B. H. Geng. 2021. Feroxichthys panzhouensis sp. nov., a hump-backed colobodontid (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the early Middle Triassic of Panzhou, Guizhou, China. PeerJ 9(e11257) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
46448 O. Rieppel, C. Li, and N. C. Fraser. 2010. The skeletal anatomy of the Triassic protorosaur Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Li, from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, southern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):95-110 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
55361 G. H. Xu and C. C. Shen. 2015. Panxianichthys imparilis gen. et sp. nov., a new ionoscopiform (Halecomorphi) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53:1-15 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]