Beishan Hills, Quarry 3, Subei County: Olenekian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Neocalamites sp. Halle 1908
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Boreosomus sp. Stensiƶ 1921
Ptycholepiformes
Yuchoulepis gansuensis Su 1993
Su 1993
Holotype IVPP V10099.1, nearly complete specimen
Traversodontidae
Beishanodon youngi n. gen., n. sp. Gao et al. 2010
1 individual
PKUP V3007, incomplete skull (holotype)
Actinopteri
Plesiofuro mingshuica Su 1993
Xu et al. 2015
Holotype IVPP V10100.1 (> 500 specimens referred to the taxon at this site)
Actinopteri - Scanilepiformes
Beishanichthys brevicaudalis n. gen., n. sp. Xu and Gao 2011
Xu and Gao 2011
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Perleididae
Perleidus sp. de Alessandri 1910
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 96.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 85.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Olenekian
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hongyanjing
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Olenekian age is based upon vertebrate and plant biostratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: PKUP: Peking University Paleontological Collections, Beijing
Metadata
Database number:105775
Authorizer:M. Clapham, J. Flannery-Sutherland, R. Butler Enterer:M. Clapham, R. Butler, J. Flannery-Sutherland
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-25 04:19:03 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-25 04:19:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46432. K.-Q. Gao, R. C. Fox, C.-F. Zhou and D.-Q. Li. 2010. A new nonmammalian eucynodont (Synapsida: Therapsida) from the Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and its biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications. American Museum Novitates 3685:1-25 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

87545 D.Z. Su. 1993. New Jurassic ganoid fishes from northwestern Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31:1-14 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]
35311 G. H. Xu and K. Q. Gao. 2011. A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161:595-612 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
87546 G.H. Xu, K.Q. Gao, and M. Coates. 2015. Taxonomic revision of Plesiofuro mingshuica from the Lower Triassic of Northern Gansu, China, and the relationships of early neopterygian clades. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]