Shawan, Lufeng: Hettangian, China
collected by M. Bien, C.-C. Young 1938

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anchisauridae
Gyposaurus sinensis n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1941 2 individuals
IVPP V24-27, partial skeletons of two individuals
Reptilia - Massospondylidae
Lufengosaurus huenei n. gen., n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1947 2 specimens
IVPP V15 (holotype), V275
Lufengosaurus magnus Young 1941
Young 1947 5 specimens
IVPP V41, 83, V267, V268, V269
Reptilia
Yunnanosaurus huangi Young 1940
Young 1951 1 specimen
IVPP V32
Sinosaurus triassicus Young 1940
Young 1951 1 specimen
IVPP V279, tooth
Reptilia - Coelophysidae
Panguraptor lufengensis n. gen., n. sp. You et al. 2014
You et al. 2014 1 specimen
LFGT-0103
Reptilia
? Lukousaurus yini Young 1940
Young 1951 1 specimen
IVPP V77, three bone fragments
Tritylodontidae
Bienotherium yunnanense Young 1940
Young 1947 1 specimen
IVPP V65
Bienotherium elegans n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1940 1 specimen
synonym of Bienotherium yunnanense
IVPP V2, crushed skull (holotype)
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan County:Lufeng
Coordinates: 25.2° North, 102.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° North, 104.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1620 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 199.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lufeng Member:Shawan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Dull Purplish beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation"
The Lufeng Formation has been divided into lower dark/dull purple beds (= Shawan Member) and upper dark/deep red beds (= Zhangjiawa Member). Luo & Wu (1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, pp. 251–270) argue on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy for a Hettangian–Sinemurian age for the Zhangjiawa Member and a Hettangian age for the Shawan Member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "dull purplish beds"; skeleton in "the dark red (in the field rather bright) clayish sandstone of homogenous texture. The bone is bluish gray sometimes dark gray or light gray in coloration. It is completely mineralized and very hard, sometimes as hard as the matrix."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collectors:M. Bien, C.-C. Young Collection dates:1938
Metadata
Database number:49501
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler, G. Lloyd Enterer:M. Carrano, G. Lloyd, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-18 11:06:37 Last modified:2017-12-01 15:11:38
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-18 11:06:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17001.ETE M. N. Bien. 1940. Discovery of Triassic saurischian and primitive mammalian remains at Lufeng, Yunnan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3/4):225-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

16609ETE P. M. Barrett, P. Upchurch, and X.-L. Wang. 2005. Cranial osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Yunnan, People's Republic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):806-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63985 M. N. Bien. 1941. “Red Beds” of Yunnan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 21(2–4):157-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
66049 H.-L. You, Y. Azuma, T. Wang, Y.-M. Wang, and Z.-M. Dong. 2014. The first well-preserved coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from Asia. Zootaxa 3873(3):233-249 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
43807 C. C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Mesozoic mammals of Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of China 20:93-111 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
52194 C. C. Young. 1947. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng saurischian remains. Contributions from the Geological Institute, National University of Peking 31:103-106 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]
14780ETE C.-C. Young. 1941. Gyposaurus sinensis Young (sp. nov.) a new Prosauropoda from the Upper Triassic beds at Lufeng, Yunnan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 21(2-4):205-252 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/R. Butler]
24257ETE C.-C. Young. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 121 7:1-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43814 C.-C. Young. 1947. Mammal-like reptiles from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 117:537-597 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
12552ETE C.-C. Young. 1947. On Lufengosaurus magnus Young (sp. nov.) and additional finds of Lufengosaurus huenei Young. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 12:1-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43938 C.-C. Young. 1951. The Lufeng saurischian fauna in China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 13:1-96 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]